Jürgen, Tim Golden and Tim Roberts:
Jürgen Kareta wrote:
>
>
> Hello Dean,
>
>
>>I am not a Windows programmer, but have managed to port some Linux codes to
>>the
>>python/windows environment. To allow windows users to print, I used some code
>>that needed to know the name of the 'shares' providing printers (there were 2
>>of
>>them in the environment in which I work). The code looks in part like:
>>
>> import win32print
>> default_printer = win32print.GetDefaultPrinter () # just the default
>>
>> for j in range (len (self.share_names)): # <-------must know share names!
>> A = win32print.EnumPrinters (win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_NAME,\
>> self.share_names [j], 2)
>> for i in range (len (A)):
>> win_printer = A [i] ['pPrinterName']
>> self.printer_list.append (win_printer)
>>
>>My question then is, "how does one determine the share names in an arbitrary
>>environment - without asking someone, and then coding them (as I've done
>>above?)"
>>
>>
>>
>
> try win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_ENUM_LOCAL,None,2) or
> win32print.EnumPrinters(win32print.PRINTER_INFO,None,2) for lokal shares
>
> and
> win32print.EnumPrinters(100,None,2) for network shares. Further Infos
> look up at:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/prntspol_9fjn.asp
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> regards,
> Jürgen
Thank you for your very helpful replies. I tried Jürgen's suggestions (above),
and the 1st and 3rd both worked flawlessly.
I sincerely appreciate your assistance.
Regards,
Dean
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