RE: Internet Printing

Hi Edward,

Thankyou very much for your reply. I'm not quite sure I follow what you've
said, if you can't see the 'connect' button on the webpage of the
printserver, how do you print to that printer over http ? (from internal or
external clients, doesn't make any difference in my case).
If I use using add/remove printers on a remote client and create an RPC
connection (defining the http address of the printer), this works ok,
although it doesn't copy the necessary drivers across, I have to manually
install them.

I thought the whole point of having the 'connect to' option is that you can
connect to the printer over the internet and the drivers are automatically
copied down to the remote client? I can confirm the remote clients
definately DO NOT have the required printer drivers.

Within the LAN, printing to the server works normally, no problems.

Thanks for your help

Peter.

"Edward Tian" wrote:

> Hi:
> Thank you for posting here. I am sorry for the delayed response due to
> weekend. Please understand that the newsgroups are staffed weekdays by
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> questions. Your understanding is greatly appreciated!
>
> I have peformed a test on my side: I enter http://<ip address>/printers
> from the remote computer, all the printers are in the list. Then I click
> one printer and fin that actually there doesn't exist the option "Connect"
> under the printer actions part on the web page. However, printing service
> can be used normally (I can print a document and manage the printing
> process). Also, from an internal client, I get the same result.
>
> Then, can you tell me if you can use the printing service normally? If
> documents can be printed normally, that should be a normal behavior because
> the "Connect" option is used to download appropriate printer driver to the
> local computer. That is to say, if we already have printer drivers
> installed, we will not see this option.
>
> Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
> Have a nice day! :)
>
> Best Regards
> Edward Tian(MSFT)
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> | Hi,
> |
> | I have setup Internet Printing and all seems to be ok (can be accessed
> from
> | internal and external machines). I can access the printers page and see
> all
> | the printers installed on the server. My problem is I don't have the
> | 'connect' option under the 'printer actions' part on the printers webpage
> | ('Pause', 'Resume' and 'Cancel all Documents' are the only available
> options).
> |
> | Any help would be much appreciated.
> |
> | Peter.
> |
>
>
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