Eric, 1. Although I may have missed it, let's be sure that your UV/NT is installed on an XP Pro machine, not on an XP Home machine. UV/NT is not tested/certified for installation on XP Home.
2. While the prior comments have all been accurate, let me add a critical note: the remote printer not only must be installed as a printer on your UV/NT machine, but it must be installed on your UV/NT machine connected to an lpr (Line Printer Remote) port created on your UV/NT machine if it is to be used by Universe. You can look up "lpr ports" in XP Help for the details on how to create an lpr port. The lpr port installation will allow you to enter the path to your remote printer that you have described below and give it a printer name (with no spaces) by which it will be known to Universe on your UV/NT machine. The remote printer becomes a local printer on your UV/NT machine by installing it on an lpr port on your UV/NT machine. 3. When you create the logical printer on the lpr port for this remote printer, I suggest that you use the "Generic/Text" printer driver from the "Generic" manufacturer in the Windows printer drivers list, regardless of what kind of printer it is. This will enable you to send ESC sequences to the printer to reconfigure it so that it will remain reconfigured after the program that sends the ESC sequences closes. 4. If you name this remote printer UVDEFAULT on the UV/NT machine, everything you print from Universe without using the SETPTR command should print to it automatically. 5. If you name it anything other than UVDEFAULT, you will need to use SETPTR to talk to it using the Windows printer name that you assigned to it on your UV/NT machine. 6. Finally, are you aware that Universe on NT does not have a print spooler like Universe on .nix (or like most of the other multivalue databases)? UV/NT uses the Windows spooler, if you choose to do so in your Windows printer installation, which fails to provide much of the spooler functionality that you are used to having in UV/.nix. We have a solution to this problem, called SpoolerPlus, if this is a concern for you. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions. hth, Dave Dave Taylor President Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (O) 310-544-1974 (P) 800-339-1497 (F) 310-377-3550 Your Source for Integrated EDI Translation and DataSync Integration www.sysmarkinfo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Limbeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:59 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Printer problems on UV PE under Windows XP > Brian, > > 1. This is a network printer \\xxx-dev\xxx > 2. I use this printer from windows XP as my default printer all day long > 3. I've set up a printer called NORCRON via my SB+ admin screen. If I do a > spool -list, it does not appear, however my \\norcron-dev\NORCRON does (with > no entries). I can't do a SETPTR to \\norcron-dev\NORCRON ... Universe says > illegal option. I do a setptr to NORCRON (which points to > \\norcron-dev\NORCRON) and it appears to take and allows me to print to it > .. But no printing actually happens and NORCRON is not in the spool list. > 4. > 5. I think so - how can I be sure? > 6. I'll try and fiddle with this > > Thanks for the help ... This is incredibly frustrating. > Eric > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Leach > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 4:32 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] Printer problems on UV PE under Windows XP > > Eric, > > Can we start from the top: > > 1. Is this a local printer or a share e.g. \\machine\printer ? > 2. If remote, is it installed under Windows? If so, does your UniVerse user > have privilege to access it? > 3. Does the printer show up if you do a SPOOL -LIST ? Is there an error code > reported when you do? > 4. If local, can you set the printer to FILE (printer->Properties->Ports) > and see any output? > 5. Are the printer drivers locally installed? > 6. If remote, try setting up the printer as a local printer (on > \\machine\share) an try using the generic/text only driver. > > Brian > > > > > Folks, > > > > I've been struggling to set up a printer. After much tweaking and > > twiddling, I finally can actually see the printer in U2ADMIN, but > > still can't seem to get anything to print to it. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
