Sounds like a netbios name resolution issue. At a command prompt when you type
net view \\pcname\print-sharename what happens. You mention a HOSTS file and
the German PC IP being in there. Do you use WINS and if yes is the PC
registered there and are both clients at each end properly setup as WINS
clients?
You could also try a LMHOSTS files, which acts as a WINS type resolution
process. The basic syntax would be:
ip address of german pc netbios name of german pc #PRE #DOM:domain
name of german domain that pc is member of
For example:
192.168.1.25 germanpc01 #PRE #DOM:domgermany
The entries need to be separated by at least one space (I use a tab) and the
#PRE and #DOM keywords need to be in caps.
See if that works.
Thanks
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Greeting One-and-All
Some assistance please.
I have 2 NT4 domains which trust each other (both ways)
(1 in UK, 1 in Germany.. over a WAN)
I want to setup a network printer in the UK which points to a physical
printer in Germany.
(The actual printer is connected to an NT4 workstation via an LPT
connection... not Jet Direct)
I've added security permissions to the printer such that it should allow
print jobs from my domain.
However when I try to create the network printer connection in the UK it
always fails
(with an "invalid printer name" message)
((The German PC is listed in my HOST file.))
However if I connect using the IP address and the share name it will
create the printer.
Although it doesn't seem to work properly.
what am I missing here?
(I thought this would be a trivial task.... wrong again !!!)
ta muchly
Keith
Hughes Network Systems (Europe)
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Greeting One-and-All
Some assistance please.
I have 2 NT4 domains which trust each other (both ways)
(1 in UK, 1 in Germany.. over a WAN)
I want to setup a network printer in the UK which points to a physical printer
in Germany.
(The actual printer is connected to an NT4 workstation via an LPT
connection... not Jet Direct)
I've added security permissions to the printer such that it should allow print
jobs from my domain.
However when I try to create the network printer connection in the UK it
always fails
(with an "invalid printer name" message)
((The German PC is listed in my HOST file.))
However if I connect using the IP address and the share name it will create
the printer.
Although it doesn't seem to work properly.
what am I missing here?
(I thought this would be a trivial task.... wrong again !!!)
ta muchly
Keith
Hughes Network Systems (Europe)
tel: +44 (0) 1908-221122 x320
fax: +44 (0) 1908-221127
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