problems with printers and win2k

[rargi2002]

Hello my name is Ramón and i have a problem with printers and windows 2000 and fox. I have a LAN in my Job: 1 server and 7 workstations. the server is running under win2k server,5 ws under win98 and 2 under windows 2000 pro. The server has two printer Epson LX-300 one in LPT1 and the other one in LPT2. The printer in LPT1 is used with a sort of documents and works excellent in the network. The problem is the second printer(LPT2), which is used only to print invoices. I use the next statement in my program

set printer to “LPT2:”
set printer to \\server\impre2=lpt2:

server=name of the server
impre2=name of the printer in the network(sharing)

Windows2000 pro does not recognize the statement above. I tried to suppressed them and everything works fine in the server, but the problem appears when I try to print from a ws, because the ws does not find the printer(impre2) in the network. Using win98 there is no problem at all. What sould I do?

Any help will be appreciated
Thanks for your time

 

[dbMark]

It seems W2k is not as forgiving as the older versions of Windows. Although I do not have the FoxPro books with me, so I'm not sure how much of this might help, but try adjusting your code a bit to see if any of these small changes work:

SET PRINTER TO LPT2
* local printer only unless you reassign port with NET USE

or...

cDest="LPT2"
SET PRINTER TO &cDest
* local printer only unless you reassign port with NET USE

or...

cServer="myserver"
cPrinter="printersharename"
SET PRINTER TO NAME \\&cServer\&cPrinter

or slightly modified...

cServer="myserver"
cPrinter="printersharename"
cPrintPath="\\"+cServer+"\"+cPrinter
SET PRINTER TO NAME &PrintPath

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...s/fox7help/html/lngset_printer.asp?frame=true

dbMark

 

[MBSCSI]

When you go to the printer properties in any version of Windows, you can capture the printer port. Once , you capture the port, you can assign it to lpt1 or lpt2. Then any calls to LPT2 will go to the network printer you designate.