Re: Network Printing (Yes i know it's been discussed before!)

From: MikeR (MikeR_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 09/09/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 01:45:04 -0700

OK, havn't had a chance to try installing and setting a local printer as the
default, but will try this later today. Yes the B/W driver is a network
printer, but I really do need this to be the default, it'll only confuse
people having to change printer drivers from a local one to a nertwork one
every time they want to print.

If I try mapping the printer address to e.g LPT8 it throws back an error
stating this port does not exist. The only ports it will let you re-direct
are LPT1 - 3

Our network has a very good remote support utlity that lets me select a
range of workstations, copy files to them, and then execute programs/batch
files on them remotely. So I copy the relevant batch file to every
workstation I need to run it on, then tell them all to run it. That's how I
run the printui.dll line on selective workstations.

RM Connect networks, don't talk to me about them! Spent over a year of my
life providing support for one, and, although i never looked at it in depth,
I think the print quota software that they used is based on the same print
quota software I use (Created by FLO industries) The network in question here
is, incase you hadn't worked it out, in a school, and is a Viglen Classlink
network. By the way, viglen have been very un-helpful in this matter. there
only suggestion was to switch off print quota monitoring, and set the
workstations to print directly to the printers via TCP/IP which does seem to
work. They also told me it was a known issue, and they had no solutions for
it!! fat lot of good that is.

Problem is I like a challenge, and I'm determined to get it to work one way
or another!!

"Ed Bennett" wrote:

> A small child turns to Ed, and exclaims: "Look! Look! A post from MikeR
> <MikeR@discussions.microsoft.com>!"...
> > Yes the version of the printer driver defaulted to B/W printing is
> > set as the default printer. on the system, but publisher won't print
> > to either.
> No, I said to set a local printer as the default printer. From the
> information you have given me, the B/W driver is still a network printer.
>
> > Incidently i have tried mapping a LPT port to the printer address, and
> > printing to that, and it works ok, but I can't have LPT ports
> > permanently mapped, as some of the computers have local printers,
> Most computers only have LPT1 ports - mapping to LPT8 or something should
> avoid this problem.
>
> > plus the only way to do this would be with command lines in the
> > logon.bat script which is used by all 170+ workstations, and I don't
> > want all 170 workstations to be mapped to these two printers, only
> > the 60 machines that actually use them.
> How are you executing the rundll32 printui.dll statement selectively at the
> moment then?
>
> By the way, as far as I can tell the RM Community Connect system allows
> printer credit monitoring without having to print through a print server (we
> have network printers that plug directly into the LAN - it doesn't seem that
> the document goes through the server in the end). I'm not advocating
> switching to RM in any way (I hate the thing and would strongly advice
> against using it), but it seems there is more than one way to skin the
> printer credit cat.
>
> --
> Ed Bennett - MVP Microsoft Publisher
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>
>

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