windows mixed enviornments

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu May 26 15:29:53 PDT 2011


At Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:44:48PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Dave Rottkamp was observed uttering:
> Hi
> 
> Have client using filepro 5.0.11 on a windows 7 (64) bit machine
> He has users on windows xp boxes (32) bit machines
> 
> I am mapping his drive as there drive letter I
> they have bat file that has
> 
> PFDSK=I
> PFPROG=I
> PFPRINTER=perri
> i:\fp\p menuname
> 
> 
> printer perri is setup by pmaint as HPLASER with \\station1\sta1 for printer  \\station1 is users computer name \sta1 is share name for their printer
> they have no problems accessing database and doing all functions until they go print
> because the server is 64 bit and users are 32 bit can not create printer on the windows 7 box
> drivers will not load.

I can't speak to the error, but the way that's consistently been advised
here is to set it up as:  win:Windows Printer Name

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