I though DP only printed to a local prniter on a LPT1 or LPT2 port. Is this correct, or is there a way to get DP ro print across a network connection to a newwotrk printer?
I'll try this other stuff when I am in the office on Monday. Thanks. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Hancock Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 4:50 PM To: DataPerfect Users Discussion Group Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Printing on a Remote Desktop Hi Jeff, This article might help describe the Windows printing process, http://www.brianmadden.com/attachments/Brian%20Madden%20-%20Terminal%20Serve r%20Printing.pdf I have a feeling you might need a thirdy party product like Citrix, however you could try setting up shared printers on the client and then say use a batch file to redirect the local port to the network queue. eg Using MyClient and MyServer , create a printer shared on MyClient (NB keep share name to 8 chars or less), and give permission to the Terminal Server user. On MyServer use a batch file to start DP, (ie instance running on MyServer -Terminal server session) net use lpt4 \\Myclient\MyShare dp myStr.str and configure DP report to print to LPT4, do not use LPT1 or LPT2, or even LPT3, as non-Administrators cannot remap a real local port. Since most systems do not have support for LPT4 it is reasonable safe. You might be able to use environment variables set in log in scripts to manage the bactch file for multiple users, eg net use lpt4 %MyPrinter Regards Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Puhlmann-Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 6:50 AM Subject: [Dataperf] Printing on a Remote Desktop > Hello, Fellow DataPerfect Users! > > We're using DataPerfect on Windows Server 2003. Almost everything works > great (especially with the Tame DOS addition I picked up here!) > > Our users log on to the server via a Remote Desktop connection. As I > said, > almost everything works... > > Users can do anything EXCEPT print reports from DataPerfect on their local > printer. They can print any other documents from any Windows programs > running on the remote desktop, so I know the connection to the local > printer > is good. I need a workaround to get DataPerfect to print directly to the > local LPT1 port. > > Can anyone help me? > > Thanks. > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
