Re: printing probs

Hope I'm not telling you something you already know. I'm assuming Win XP.
Right click My Computer and head for the Computer Name tab. On it there
should be a Full Computer Name field. That's the computer name. If it has
dots, like Bob.company.com, the Computer name is Bob.

Go to the printers, and right click the printer you have shared, and select
properties. Go for the Sharing tab. There is a field that says Share Name:
That's the printer's name.

If you then construct what you found into \\computername\printername
hopefully it will work.

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Sven
MVP - Mobile Devices
"Phil Pykett" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u$hkvdLrFHA.3596@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am trying to print from my Ipaq 1940 using the HP mobile print 4.0
>software that I have recently downloaded and installed. It is a bit limited
>in make of printer, but as I have a shared hp printer on my home network,
>attached via USB, to the machine I active-sync with, would have thought
>this should be straightforward. What I am finding impossible, however, is
>identifying the correct configuration. You can't of course search for a
>local printer. The help file are of limited use. What would the printer
>address be? the help files suggest:
> \\MyShare\MyPrinter
> or
> \\127.0.0.1\MyPrinter
>
> have tried a range of substitues for local names IP's etc, but can't get
> the config sorted.
>
> Can anyone help or is this the wrong newsgroup? Perhaps not the best
> softeware for printing in the first place!
>
> Thanks for any help given
>
> Phil


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