Sometimes we worry about the simplest of issues ..
What happens when we want to install and share a printer on a WHS unit - with no display (screen) ?
Well, I expected it to be ‘just’ a little complex - oh no - it’s just like my other experiences of WHS - it just works.
Here’s the story. Installed WHS unit (in a small office, to give users new ’space’ but more to ensure all PCs were being backed up) - then decided to see if it could ‘host’ a shared printer.
1. Plugged in a USB printer (Samsung laser) to the WHS unit.
2. Thought I would then have to open a remote desk top connection, to install / share it. So on one of the office XP PC’s I logged onto WHS desktop - and there were no ‘warning messages (new printer found)’ etc. Then I opened the printer folder - and there it was - the Samsung ‘installed and shared’ !! - excellent. There was NO NEED to open that remote desktop 
3. So on the same networked XP PC, I went to add a new networked printer, went to ‘browse’ for a printer - and in the ‘Printer’ box started to type \\server\ (the name of the WHS server) - and it automatically discovered the ‘Samsung Laser’ - so I completed the connection.
For the first time in many years, I felt like that was ‘the way it should have been’….
Hats off to Microsoft - for making this popular operation just that little bit simpler.
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