How can I connect multiple computers to a single printer? All the computers are connected to a WiFi network. What’s the easiest solution?
If you are talking about a USB printer like an Epson L110, L120, or any printer that is connected via USB, you can share it to all computer connected to your wifi network.First, make the printer work in one PC alone via installing the driver. Then test it by doing a “Test Print” (This assumes that the PC you are connecting the printer on is connected to the network)Second, know the IP address of the PC that the printer is connected or installed to. You can know this via CMD prompt and typing ipconfig /a.Third, if you are working on Windows machine (might be windows 7 or 10), go to Devices and Printers setting (just click the start menu and search for it) and you will find the installed printer listed in there. Right click on the printer icon and select “Printer Properties” (Note: Do not select just “Properties”). Go to the “Sharing” Tab and click the check box “Share Printer” then press OKFourth, Go to the other PC’s in the network and type the IP address of the PC where you installed the printer (see step 2) to run command (windows key + R) but you have to type it like \\192.168.x.xFifth, a window will pop up asking you to login, just use your login on that PC you’re working on, it should be fine. It will again bring you to another window listing all the shared folders and devices of that computer. Double Click on the printer icon you see in there and it should install the driver automatically and make that printer accessible.From there you can see that on whatever text editor with print features you are using. Just do these steps on all the PC’s connected to the network.NOTE: if you have a wifi printer, everything will be much easier to setup. Just look at the manual of that printer and you will be able to set it up pretty easy.
What is the easiest way to connect two computers?
There are so many ways to connect two computers. If I would pick the easiest I would pick this:Ethernet cableIt’s very cheap, available everywhere and supported by almost all computer unless you have one of the new ultra thin laptops, in this case you will need a usb → RJ45 to make it work.You can buy this cable from Amazon, eBay or the one I prefer MonoPrices.comAll you have to do is to connect the two computers using this cable then go to the network setting and write down the IP addresses manually. For example:PC1:IP Address: 192.168.1.200Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0PC2:IP Address: 192.168.1.201Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0After than you may need to configure your network sharing settings to allow the kind of sharing you need. “Share files, folders, printers, …etc”If you need help with these settings, you can write a comment telling what is the purpose of the sharing and what operating system you have, if you want me to give you detailed steps.Note:You could alternatively use a router, switch, Access point, Serial, Parallel, USB, Infrared, Bluetooth or Fiber cable :DFor guys interested in learning about computers and computers networking with no or limited knowledge I recommend starting with CompTIA A+ to lean computers software and hardware fundamentals and learn some troubleshooting skills. Then CompTIA Network+ to learn computer networks fundamentals and basic troubleshooting skills.You can get high quality studying materials here → AlphaPrep.netRelated Questions:What is the difference between IP address and MAC address, and how they are used?What is the difference between a hub, a switch, and a router?How can I find out what my IP address is?A network uses IP addresses from the 192.168.30.0/24 network. An engineer allocates 254 IP addresses for the hosts on the network, but excludes 192.168.30.0/24 and 192.168.30.255/24 IP addresses. Why must he exclude these two IP addresses?What kind of job can you get with a CompTIA A+ Certification?What's the difference between RJ11 and RJ45 ethernet cables?What happens if two devices connected to internet have same MAC address? Do they work well?Edit 2-Jan-2018:For sake of not risking having any problems with some old computer NICs “network interface cards” you better get a crossover cable which is a type of Ethernet cables. you can buy it here → Search result for crossover cable or you can get one from any local store.…………….Happy New Year everyone : )
Is it possible to connect 2 computers with a USB cable?
You mean with a cable like that? Absolutely. It is ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE to connect two computers with that cable. However it is most definitely PROBABLE that if you do use that cable there to connect two computers, you will damage one, if not both of the computers.You didn’t ask if it was possible to connect two computers with a USB cable so you could transfer information.You didn’t ask if it was possible to connect two computers with a USB cable so you could share an internet connection.You didn’t ask if it was possible to connect two computers with a USB cable to actually do something useful.You just asked if it was possible to connect two computers with a USB cable. And it is.Now, there once was a USB Transfer kit that had those two ends on it…But see that big huge thing in the middle they are going out of their way to emphasize and show off? That thing is what makes the difference between frying one or both computers… and actually facilitating a transfer of information.This is a Belkin Easy Transfer Cable… and it was made to use with Windows 7, to be able to transfer information easily between one computer and another.So if you had asked… Is it possible to connect two Windows 7 computers with a USB cable to transfer information… I would have said “Yes” and pointed you to that device. Why? You would have provided information about the task you were looking to accomplish and information about the specific systems. Note how I’ve been specific about the OS here. Why? That cable was made to use functions of Windows 7. It requires different, specific software to work with Windows 8… but there are no Windows 8 or 10 compatible drivers. You’d have to use the Windows 7 drivers, and the Windows 8 specific software to TRY to get it to work on Windows 10, and you likely won’t. We gave up on getting the one we had at work, to work with Windows 10, and switched to PC Mover software over the network.Is it possible to connect 2 computers with a USB cable?You just asked if it was possible. It is. Whether or not there is a device to allow what YOU specifically have in mind to work… that’s another story.
Computers: How do I connect two PCs?
If both of your computers share same internet connection you most likely have them both on same network.If not, depending on your connection you can get them to same network with either for ADSL or Cable internet connections your modem should have built in network switch with connectors shown below (marked in yellow):In case you have a mobile connection (a USB-stick plugged in that connects to for example 3G or 4G mobile network) you will have to replace that with a routing mobile modem that has similar ethernet ports.Another way of connecting a computer to a network is to use Wi-Fi, it's a wireless connection that many modems and routers also got built in and laptops have built in Wi-Fi connection as well. Desktops usually lack this connection method.So what I suggest you to do is network your computers, desktop with ethernet cable and laptop with wi-fi using a modem with built in wired (ethernet) + wireless (wi-fi) connections or buying a router that you can connect to a modem if your modem does not have wireless.After that you can setup a HomeGroup in Windows and share your printer using these instructions:http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/w...
How do you combine 2 computers to work together at once (1 monitor, 1 windows screen, 2 computers)?
What you are asking is not possible. The opposite, i.e. having a single PC host multiple virtual machines (VM) that share the CPU & Ram resources and appear as individual machines to multiple users each having his/her own desktop is doable.But you cannot combine multiple machines for Windows or most consumer OS to use CPU, RAM, GPU and storage resources as one. There is simply no connection available between consumer hardware that would make that fast enough to be viable.You can do distributed computing with multiple machines, but that’s mainly used for highly multithreaded and scalable tasks. Mainly rendering images & video with say 3DS Max, Maya or After Effects as examples. But again, the work setup is happening in one “main” workstation (the host) that only uses its own hardware resources, and then starts distributing smaller chunks of the job over the network for other machines (clients or “slaves”) to compute in parallel. But each machine does its own thing, and if you have 10 4GHz Quad cores with 32GB RAM each, you can get results that approach 9–10x the speed of a single 4GHz Quad doing the same job, but you cannot aggregate the RAM…whichever task needs to be completed, needs to fit to each machines RAM independently.You can also do remote desktop connections so that you can operate on a machine from your mobile device or another desktop, and for example play a game that its actually run on the remote machine but gets controlled by your local one (with some delay), or you can have your local machine run one application and the remote one run another, effectively freeing up RAM for one or the other, but you can never combine the RAM and run a single app that would for example require 8GB of RAM, by using remote desktop to connect two 4GB machines.
Can I connect 2 computers with HDMI / VGA to 1 screen an view them both at the same time? How?
The answer to this questiotn is “With the right monitor”. You need a monitor, or some software, running in tandem on both computers separately, that can combine two different display signals into one cohesive display. Essentially, a monitor can only display one signal at a time, unless it somehow combines them before display, processing them into one image.