Just a thought but are the misc.. printers certified as XP compliant? We had to replace our home printer after switching as it was not compatible with XP. another suggestion is perhaps you could obtain updated drivers or firmware from the respective manufacturers?
tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "tellef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 9:36 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Printing Windows in XP > > Who woulda thought? A client put her first XP > workstation on a W2000 network with all Win98 > workstations. Believe it or not, printing from > DOS worked immediately! I have problems with > Windows! > > This client has about a half dozen printers, > all loaded with different preprinted forms, > multipart forms, etc. My Windows programs > are loaded with "PRNSETUP 'HP Laserjet4 Backroom'" > type of commands. > > But on the XP workstation, the PRNSETUP list > pre-pends the print server to the name, such > as: > \\afserver\HPLaser > > There's several problems. Obviously this name > doesn't match the name from Win98, which does not > include the server name. The name of the printer > that appears in the list is from the Printer > Properties, the General tab. I can change the > name of 'HPLaser' that's provided to match the > long name mentioned above, but it still puts the > server name in front. > > If I type "PRNSETUP '\\afserver\...." it does > NOT change the current printer. What WILL change > the current printer is if I use the 'SHARED NAME' > that is found on the Sharing tab of the printer > properties! So I thought, aha, I'll change the > 'SHARED NAME' to be the long name matching the > Win98, but shared names don't accept spaces and > when I changed the shared name, none of the Win98 > computers could access that printer again! > > Does anyone have networks with XP and Win98? > Can anyone think of something I can do in my > app ONLY ONCE so that I don't have to go thru > all my PRNSETUPS and change them depending on > the operating system??? > > > Karen > > >
