print server

gliderman.one at verizon.net gliderman.one at verizon.net
Mon Oct 10 12:08:23 PDT 2005


Don Coleman wrote:

> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>
>> Quoting gliderman.one (Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:18:32 -0400):
>>
>>  
>>
>>> A customer has installed a print server, Trendnet  TE-100 and installed
>>> a tcp/ip address on each Windows computer.
>>>
>>> what do we tell filePro in order to print from each computer to the
>>> printer?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The same thing that you tell filePro for any other network printer:
>>
>>    win:printername
>>
>> where "printername" is the name by which Windows knows the printer.
>>
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>
> When using the WIN: syntax for a printer attached to USB001 which is 
> shared on a network do you use the full Windows printer name (usually 
> rather long with imbedded spaces) or the Windows share name?  TYIA.
>
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For XP, I use  \\computernamewhichtheprinterisattached\printername(which 
I change/shorten to fewer than 8 characters).  

Charles Day


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