New network print server stops printing cold

[TonyScarpelli]

My company installed a new print server program and now I can't print from FP 2.6 DOS any more.

The new port name look like this:
ipp://mmc-manager1.mmc.org/ipp/CLINENGLSR2RMG922

and the printer name looks like this:
\\ipp://mmc-manager1.mmc.org\CLINENGLSR2RMG922

I've been using this which worked:
SET PRINTER TO \\SPOOLER\N\S=ZEUS\Q=CLINENGLSR2RMG922_Q

I've tried various 'SET PRINTER TO' variations on the port and can't get it to print to my network printers, but whatever I tried the reports go to my local printer on LPT1 instead.

For instance
lcStr = '\\ipp://mmc-manager1.mmc.org/ipp/CLINENGLSR2RMG922'
SET PRINTER TO &lcStr
REPORT FORM XXXXX TO PRINTER NO CONSOLE
sends the report directly to my local printer, not to the network printer.

Does anyone have any idea as to how to format the port to get it to print correctly?

Thanks.

Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[DSummZZZ]

Have you tried using NET USE ... then setting the printer to that?


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[TonyScarpelli]

Yes, I tried, but kept on getting a NET USE error. Something is not formatted correctly. The help shows the syntax but everything I tried gave me an error.

Thanks.


Tony Scarpelli
Clinical Engineering Dept.
Maine Medical Center
Portland, Maine 04102

 

[cricket]

Try to resolve the problem from MS-Dos. Go as far back as Win98 if you can, for testing.
If you cannot print from MS-DOS, FPD has no hope.
You may be able to capture the printing port to LPT1 or LPT2 or a COM port in the printer setup. FPD can only use the above 'traditional' ports.