dreport -p flag in Win XP

[Del]

Help!

I have very limited experience with Windows networks, have worked with filePro mostly in the Unix environment.

I am trying to cause output from an output format to always go to a particular printer.  I decided to use the dreport -p flag to do this.

Filepro and fp are on a PC called "server" which is shared by multiple PC's in the office.  The default printer is an HP laser locally attached to "server" and all reports go there by default (no -p flag).  This works ok.

A dot matrix printer is attached to "FREDS_PC" (network name) and shared over the network as "OKiML320".  This printer is visible from "server" and I can print to it from "server" using wordpad (tested with a small TXT file).  I defined this printer to filepro (on "server") in the printer table as :  

    matrix:PAN1092:WIN:\\FREDS_PC\OKiML320

(There is no printer table for the oki 320, but I was told that they have always used PAN1092 and it works.)

I used the share name for the printer in the filepro printer table (OKiML320).  I put "-p matrix" in my dreport command line to try to force the output for all users to go to the okidata.  The result was, no error message, but nothing printed (I was logged in to "server" remotely using remote desktop).  I am not sure I put the right name in the printer table.  When I command windows to display printers on "server", the oki is listed as:

    Auto Oki ML 320 Elite (Microline) on FREDS_PC

That is the full printer name as defined to Win XP on "server". Is this the name I need to put into the filepro printer table?  And is "matrix" the name I would use in the dreport command line, or in processing if I were to use a "printer" command?

Del Neroni 

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