Printing from Logmein

[George Simon]

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net] 
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 6:29 PM
To: George Simon
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: Printing from Logmein

On 8/25/2011 6:07 PM, George Simon wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at spamcop.net]
[...]
>>> I would expect "win:printername" would work.  (Depending, of course, on
>>> how logmein passes the print data to the remote system.)  What printer
>>> do you specify in notepad, wordpad, and so on?
>>
>> There is only one printer at the remote location, so we are printing to
the
>> same printer.

> I don't really care if there's one printer or a hundred.  When you print 
> from notepad et al., you specify some printer.  Have you tried 
> "win:printername" to that same printer, from filePro?

> -- 
> Kenneth Brody

Yes, of course.  

When you select remote printing in Logmein, you have to select a printer
installed at the remote location and then you print the way you normally
would from any program.
In my case, there is only 1 printer installed at the remote location and
that printer is called FSPRINTER.
The host location has several printers, but it also has one printer called
FSPRINTER and it is also the default printer.
My program is printing to WIN:FSPRINTER

When you request remote printing in Logmein and select the FSPRINTER at the
remote location, Logmein connects a printer by the same name but with "via
Logmein" appended to it to the list of printers available at the host.  So,
if you now look at the printers installed at the host location, you will see
2 printers, one called FSPRINTER and another one called FSPRINTER via
Logmein.

>From filePro, EnumPrinters() shows the FSPRINTER via Logmein as available
but not the one called FSPRINTER.  If you stop the remote printing,
EnumPrinters() shows FSPRINTER available but not FSPRINTER via Logmein.

However, when I request output from filePro with the remote printing turned
on, I can see the output going to FSPRINTER and not FSPRINTER via Logmein.
If another program (not notepad, wordpad or Word) happens to print to the
default printer (FSPRINTER) the output will go to FSPRINTER via Logmein and
print at the remote location.

If I display the list of available printers with EnumPrinters() and print
the list by clicking on the printer icon (without selecting a printer) the
output would normally go to the default printer, which is FSPRINTER, but it
is re-directed to FSPRINTER via Logmein.

So, as far as I can tell, it is only output from filePro that does not get
re-directed to the remote printer.

Why this is so, I have no idea and was hoping someone else had run into the
same problem and had a solution.