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<tt>Jose,<br>
<br>
I have to agree. I just helped a tech that was trying to make a
parallel printer work for a customer, because it "always worked
with the old Windows XP" they had. Suggestion - adjust to a Laser
Printer. Suggestion ignored, time was spent trying to make it
work with some crazy printer spoolers. When the output was still
garbled after 2 weeks of attempts, in a few hours we moved the
system to use a laser printer. While wasting money on old tech is
the customer's choice, I never understand it.<br>
<br>
Nancy<br>
</tt><br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/20/2020 10:38 AM, Jose Lerebours
via Filepro-list wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:a0551e57-b1bd-0446-df05-f81b70e26d35@gmail.com">Wouldn't
`netcat` be a generic solution to reaching printers across
intra/extranet?
<br>
<br>
Why use USB only printers and then struggle with this!?! Get a
printer that can be given an IP, regardless of the PC it is
attached to and use `netcat` in lieu of "print" or "lp".
<br>
<br>
What am I missing here?
<br>
<br>
On a side note, when did WIN 10 become a "Server OS"? We are
trying to run away from "complexity" and render our topology
worthless. There was a time where one had a "real server" or
"servers" and I just do not remember this kind of things being as
much of an issue.
<br>
<br>
It is so nice for us to turn to fpTech for solutions for the
problems we create by making bad decisions - We save $$$ and then
expect filePro to do things that are only a problem because of the
decision we've made. It is as if to say, well, I am allowed to do
a bad infrastructure design and filePro is responsible thus fpTech
has to fix it ...
<br>
<br>
Am I the only one that see something wrong with this?
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2/20/20 9:55 AM, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">That's what I thought.
<br>
<br>
If I have a printer on a Linux server I just need to add that to
my config file.
<br>
Then, anyone can reach it.
<br>
<br>
When a printer is added to the FP Windows config, does not that
printer need to be on each PC?
<br>
<br>
Richard
<br>
<br>
There is no universal way
<br>
<br>
On 2/19/2020 6:31 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Find, as in actual discovery? Highly,
highly doubtful. I'd go so far as
<br>
saying 99.9999%+ unlikely.
<br>
<br>
That would require wayyyyy more work than I can ever see fP
Tech putting
<br>
in. Hell, HP and Brother can't even get that 100% right, and
they write
<br>
the damned drivers for their own printers. (Literally, HP
printers get
<br>
lost, and Brother's driver is only fine once you coax it into
knowing where
<br>
the printer is. It was -not- PnP. At least the Brother stays
<br>
connected, which is more than I could say for the HP.)
<br>
<br>
More succinctly: "Hah! No way in hell do I believe it can do
it!"
<br>
<br>
m->
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 03:37:44PM -0600, Richard D. Williams
via Filepro-list thus spoke:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Does windows filepro have the ability
to find a printer not on the users PC?
<br>
<br>
Richard D. Williams
<br>
<br>
On 2/19/2020 1:27 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Filepro 5.0
<br>
<br>
<br>
Client installed a new "server" named data1 running
Windows 10 Pro with an
<br>
HP Printer attached using a USB port labeled virtual
porter port for USB.
<br>
Printer name is: HP Officejet Pro 8100
<br>
<br>
<br>
This printer is connected to "server" data1. In filePro's
printer
<br>
maintenance this printer is named HP-8100 and the
destination is win: HP
<br>
Officejet Pro 8100. This printer is set to the default
printer. I can print
<br>
from data1 but not any of the other computer. Any
suggestions as to why
<br>
this issue occurs. If someone tries to print an output
they get a filePro
<br>
error and then an 1801 error message which means that the
print job is
<br>
having issues with the windows defender firewall.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I created an new incoming rule called printers opening the
ports that the
<br>
printers are using. Should I also create an outgoing
rule. No I have not
<br>
had my client's test the new firewall rule yet. I have
not run into this
<br>
issue previously.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I am accessing the new "server" data1 using GoToMyPC and
have not had a
<br>
difficulty creating outputs.
<br>
<br>
<br>
I did not set up this server or configure the other
computers for access.
<br>
<br>
<br>
filePro is installed in the folder appl which is mapped as
drive L. The
<br>
startup file is:
<br>
<br>
<br>
echo off
<br>
<br>
rem Run levy Goldbery & stettner program
<br>
<br>
rem Richard Kreiss 03/03/2010
<br>
<br>
set PFDSK=L
<br>
<br>
set PFDATA=L:
<br>
<br>
set PFPROG=L:\appl
<br>
<br>
set PFDIR=\appl
<br>
<br>
set PFGLOB=
<br>
<br>
set PFCONFIG=
<br>
<br>
set PFKeyTab=DOS
<br>
<br>
set PFTMP=C:\temp
<br>
<br>
set PATH=%PFPROG%\fp;%path%
<br>
<br>
%pfprog%\fp\p lg_menu
<br>
<br>
<br>
Any suggestions as to why filePro is not finding the
printer?
<br>
<br>
<br>
I may have to have this client upgrade to version 6 and
create PDF's for
<br>
printing if all else fails.
<br>
<br>
<br>
Richard Kreiss
<br>
<br>
GCC Consulting
<br>
<br>
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