Printing from Logmein

[Kenneth Brody]

On 8/26/2011 12:01 AM, 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?
[...]
> 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.
[...]
> 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.

Well, if EnumPrinters() shows the name as "FSPRINTER via Logmein", then 
that's what you need to tell filePro to use, rather than "FSPRINTER".

When you print in Logmein from a program such as notepad, what printer is 
selected in the "Print" dialog's list of printers?

-- 
Kenneth Brody