Click the File and Print Sharing button. Click the File and Print Sharing options you want to enable for your computer.

1. From the Start menu, choose Control Panel➪Printers and Faxes.

The Printers and Faxes folder appears, as shown in Figure 4-3. In this example, the Printers folder lists a single printer, named HP PSC 750.

2. Select the printer that you want to share.

Click the icon for the printer to select the printer.

3. Choose File➪Sharing.

You’re right: This doesn’t make sense. You’re sharing a printer, not a file, but the Sharing command is found under the File menu. Go figure. When you choose the File➪Sharing command, the Properties dialog box for the printer appears. 4. Select the Share This Printer option. 5. Change the Share Name if you don’t like the name suggested by Windows. Other computers use the share name to identify the shared printer, so choose a meaningful or descriptive name.

6. Click OK.

You return to the Printers folder, where a hand is added to the printer icon, as shown in the margin, to show that the printer is now a shared network printer. To take your shared printer off the network so other network users can’t access it, follow the above procedure through Step 3 to call up the Printer Properties dialog box. Check Do Not Share This Printer, and then click OK. The hand dis- appears from the printer icon to indicate that the printer is no longer shared. Figure 4-3: The Printers and Faxes folder. 50 Part I: Getting Started with Networking Chapter 5 Mr. McFeeley’s Guide to E-mail In This Chapter 䊳 Using e-mail 䊳 Reading and sending e-mail messages 䊳 Scheduling and conferencing electronically 䊳 Watching smileys and e-mail etiquette I n ancient times B . P . C . Before Personal Computers, a typical office worker often returned from a long lunch to find the desk covered with little pink “While You Were Out” notes. By the end of the old millennium, early com- puter screens were often plastered with stick-on notes — but even then, relief was in sight: electronic mail. If you’re a secret twentieth-century holdout, maybe the time has come for you to bite the bullet and find out how to use your computer network’s elec- tronic mail e-mail program. Most computer networks have one. If yours doesn’t, hide the network manager’s stone axe until he or she gets e-mail up and running. This chapter introduces you to what’s possible with a good e-mail program. So many e-mail programs are available that I can’t possibly show you how to use all of them, so I’m focusing on Microsoft Outlook, the e-mail program that comes with Microsoft Office. Other e-mail programs are similar, and work in much the same way. E-mail and Why It’s So Cool E-mail is nothing more than the computer-age equivalent of Mr. McFeeley, the postman from Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. E-mail enables you to send messages to and receive messages from other users on the network. Instead of writing the messages on paper, sealing them in an envelope, and then giving them to Mr. McFeeley to deliver, e-mail messages are stored on disk and electronically delivered to the appropriate user.