print server help

I set up a print server today and gave it an IP and the print is connected to it. In my network the print server shows up and everything looks good. How do I actually add the print server now to Windows Vista? Do I use the print server IP or something? Any tutorials on how to do this on vista?

If you have the printer added to the print server, and the server is on your network, all you need to do is share the printer (like you would any other folder, right click on it and under properties there's a sharing tab). Once it's shared it shows up as a share when you browse to the print server: \\servername\printer
when you double click it, it will add it as a networked printer on the client.

That's pretty much it.

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XP pro is \\servername

Then the list of shared printers will show up. Double click on it and it will install to the local machine.

Does \\servername\printer apply to Vista?

With print servers on an IP address, your add them by running the add printer wizard, local, no auto detect, select TCP/IP, type in the IP address of the print server..and follow the bouncing ball to install your printer drivers.

If it's shared from another PC, yeah you can do \\computername and find the share and right click and connect. May or may not install depending on the printer drivers between XP and Vista. But..in this way, you are bogging down the other machine when you send print jobs. Unless it's just a dedicated server....well, for a small home network, IMO just adding via IP is more efficient..print directly from your Vista rig to the printer. It's still treated as a local print by the Vista machine.