Setting up Guestnet printing in Windows XP

This page shows how to set up your Windows XP machine to print to the CCRMA guestnet printers.

These instructions assume that you have already successfully connected to the guestnet and registered your machine as shown here.

The examples shown use the names and paths for the printer in the Knoll. The machine name in the knoll is cm-guestnet-1 and the printer name is np. In the trailer, the machine is cm-guestnet-2 and the printer is np2. Substitute names where appropriate when setting up to print in the trailer.

First, open My Computer from the start menu. You'll see the following window.

On the left side, under Other Places choose Control Panel.




You should then see this window.

Choose Printers and Other Hardware from the upper right.




Now, in this window, under Pick a task... choose Add a printer




You're now greeted by the Add Printer Wizard.
Click Next.




Choose network printer and click Next.



Choose connect to this priner and fill in the path to the printer.
In the knoll, the path is \\cm-guestnet-1\np and
in trailer, it's \\cm-guestnet-2\np2.
Then, click Next.



This window will pop up. Click OK.



The next window will prompt you to choose a printer driver.
Click Have Disk...



In the next window, enter the path to the drivers.
It's \\cm-guestnet-1\drivers\winXP in the Knoll
and \\cm-guestnet-2\drivers\winXP in the trailer.



Choose the driver and click OK.



Now click Finish



You should now be able to print from any application.