Re: Client side printing

From: Tibor Karaszi (tibor_please.no.email_karaszi_at_hotmail.nomail.com)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:38:44 +0100

I agree with your assessment. Can you do the printing from the client app (which I assume is running
on the client machine already)? 

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"sansaw80" <sansaw80@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:E7FB20CE-CDA7-4334-BA6F-AEAEDA694852@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Tibor, yes what you are suggesting, makes sense.
>
> But I feel it will be better if I drop this idea and look for some different
> option. Because if we want to specify UNC naming for printer. I need to make
> printer as shared and need to give permissions so it can be accessible from
> server by other users. Since printers are getting cheaper and cheaper, almost
> everyone at client-side got there own printers, so I doubt if client admin
> will accept this solution.
>
>
>
>
> "Tibor Karaszi" wrote:
>
>> xp_cmdshell is executed on the server machine, which has no knowledge of the client who submitted
>> the SQL command. Perhaps you can specify the printer name using UNC naming so the print is done 
>> on
>> the server machine, but the destination is specified as the client?
>>
>> -- 
>> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
>> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
>> http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
>> http://www.sqlug.se/
>>
>>
>> "Santosh" <Santosh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:A37189CF-9AFE-403A-97FC-2586C96C275B@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I am trying to print Query Result directly to the printer from Client
>> > machine. I managed to do this on Server machine. Where I had written SP which
>> > accepts SQL as parameter and using osql and xp_cmdShell command I am
>> > outputting CSV file to printer. I want to do same from client machine but I
>> > want print out should get printed on client printer not on Server.
>> >
>> > Any ideas or suggestions??
>> >
>> > Many thanks in advance.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Santosh
>> >
>>
>>
>>

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