Lab 10
Lab 9
Working with Printers
Exercise 9.1
Installing a Printer
Overview
Contoso, Ltd. has just taken delivery of several new printers that the IT director purchased through an auction. He has assigned you the task of installing the printers and making them available to the users of the company network. For the first printer, you intend to connect the unit directly to an LPT port in the Windows 7 computer that will function as the print server. In Exercise 9.1, you install the driver for the printer and configure it to send print jobs to the LPT2 port.
Completion time
10 minutes
Question 1
Why doesn’t Windows 7 attempt to automatically detect a printer connected to the computer? Windows 7 does not do this automatically because printers connected to LPT ports are not detectable. If you have a printer that connects to a USB port, Windows 7 detects it and launches the wizard as soon as you plug it in.
11. Take a screen shot of the Devices and Printers control panel with the new printer icon you created by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the lab09_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
Exercise 9.2
Sharing a Printer
Overview
With the printer installed on the computer, you are ready to make it available to network users by creating a printer share and publishing it in the Active Directory database.
Completion time
5 minutes
Question 2
How can you tell whether the printer has been shared? Yes, I can tell the printer has been shared. In the description view pane hover the mouse arrow over the “State”.
Exercise 9.3
Controlling Access to a Printer
Overview
The new printer you installed has been in use for several weeks, and there have been some administrative problems you must address. First, from reading the printer’s page counter and the amount of paper consumed, it is apparent that someone is using the printer to generate an enormous amount of personal work after business hours. While it is not practical to secure
Working with Printers
Exercise 9.1
Installing a Printer
Overview
Contoso, Ltd. has just taken delivery of several new printers that the IT director purchased through an auction. He has assigned you the task of installing the printers and making them available to the users of the company network. For the first printer, you intend to connect the unit directly to an LPT port in the Windows 7 computer that will function as the print server. In Exercise 9.1, you install the driver for the printer and configure it to send print jobs to the LPT2 port.
Completion time
10 minutes
Question 1
Why doesn’t Windows 7 attempt to automatically detect a printer connected to the computer? Windows 7 does not do this automatically because printers connected to LPT ports are not detectable. If you have a printer that connects to a USB port, Windows 7 detects it and launches the wizard as soon as you plug it in.
11. Take a screen shot of the Devices and Printers control panel with the new printer icon you created by pressing Alt+Prt Scr, and then paste the resulting image into the lab09_worksheet file in the page provided by pressing Ctrl+V.
Exercise 9.2
Sharing a Printer
Overview
With the printer installed on the computer, you are ready to make it available to network users by creating a printer share and publishing it in the Active Directory database.
Completion time
5 minutes
Question 2
How can you tell whether the printer has been shared? Yes, I can tell the printer has been shared. In the description view pane hover the mouse arrow over the “State”.
Exercise 9.3
Controlling Access to a Printer
Overview
The new printer you installed has been in use for several weeks, and there have been some administrative problems you must address. First, from reading the printer’s page counter and the amount of paper consumed, it is apparent that someone is using the printer to generate an enormous amount of personal work after business hours. While it is not practical to secure