Printer Server

[FunkyChicken]

Hello again guys (and thorn)

Im trying to make my life a little easier;

I live in a house with 2 other students and we all share the usb printer connected to my laptop. All computers are WinXP home SP2. What i want to be able to do is simply control the print jobs from my laptop. When i print a document from my laptop to the connected printer i can see the print jobs lined up. When one of the other computers creates a new print job it does not show up on either my laptop or their laptops. All i want is for thier priter jobs to show up in the printer queues so that i can cancel them if necessary.

If you dont understand what im trying to say please ask and i will try to explain differently.

Thanks in advanced.

Matt Phillips

[allentrace]

Simply run the printer of your computer and share it. That way you can set up all the permission rights. Other than that you can run a print server which for 3 pcs I do not think is practical. Ohh wait I forgot the obvious answer turn the printer off so that they have to ask permission to use it.

[Clp727]

You can set priority on the printer and give yourself the HIGHEST number. I googled it and found this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...l_pif_dvpd.asp

and this one...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...l_pif_dvpd.asp

Just Google ....