Do you have something like a choose statement where your user picks from a friendly name, then you have a table that maps to the network share name?
If not, then that possibly is the way to deal with it as the name in the PRNSetup dialog is going to be as you described. The only other thing is when you pick the printer name in the PRNSetup dialog, the values for "Location" and "Comment" are displayed, but those values are set on the local machine and would require some kind of script to update every machine to match. Further, the ShareName can be longer than 8 characters, it just won't be visible to MS-Dos Workstations, so you can make the Share Name something like "Hp Laser 4 First Floor Print Room 9" or the like.... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 1:05 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Win XP/98 printing > > A client of mine has all 98 workstations on W2K server. Running > RBWin 6.5++ > > They have more printers than Mrs. Paul has fish sticks (my mother's > saying). Certain forms are always loaded in certain printers, certain > trays. So my programs are loaded with statements like: > PRNSETUP 'HP Laser Sales' or PRNSETUP 'Dot Matrix consignment', > etc. Printer names are very descriptive so in case I do a regular > PRNSETUP where they can choose, the uneducated users can figure > out which printer to choose. > > Now they want to start replacing some of the older computers with new > Win XP ones. We tried this is one of her new laptops and found out that, > if I'm right (that's what I want YOU to tell me), even though the descriptive > name as above may show up in the PRNSETUP box, it returns the > "Shared Name", which is a small one-word deal. And it will also put the > server on there, so picking a printer would return something like > \\servername\HPLASER. > > So with literally hundreds of programs with hard coded printer destinations, > what would involve the least amount of programming to let both OSs get > along? Is anyone out there doing it? > > > Karen > >
