[WEB4LIB] Re: network printers and Win2K

[Pronk, Wim Mr, ODCSPIM]

It is actually a very simple procedure to do.

You set up the printer as a local printer on the PC itself. 

Steps to go through: Log on as an Administrator on your PC, Add Printer,
Loal Printer, Create a new port, Local Port. In the box to Enter a port
name, you type \\ <PC Name> \ <Printer Share Name> or \\ <Computer IP
Address> \ <Printer Share Name>. Note: The Computer or Printer has to be on
line.

For example: \\MyPC\MyPrinter or \\192.168.1.2\MyPrinter

Rest is the same as a normal printer, you pick out the Manufacture and
Printer and you are done.

Now the printer will be available to all your users on the PC. It is a
procedure, we have been using on all our Public PC's, if we don't have a
printer with a network interface card.

Hope this help. If you have any more quesions, send me an email.

Wim

Wim Pronk
IT Specialist
ULINET Computer Center 
ODCSPIM, USAREUR & 7TH ARMY

Building 3796, Room 003
Mark Twain Village
Heidelberg, Germany

Telephone: 370-6019/7890 or +49 6221 576019
Mailto: pronkw at hq.hqusareur.army.mil
https://www.ulinet.army.mil
http://www.library.ulinet.army.mil


-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Murphy [mailto:murphyjm at kenyon.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 6:41 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: network printers and Win2K


The best we've been able to figure out is to set up a user with whatever 
network printers you want available, and then copy that profile to the 
Default User profile. (Remember that All Users and Default User are 
different folders, or you get to do a heck of a lot of reconfiguration. 
Don't ask how I know this.)

I think you'll need to delete existing profiles on that machine to get 
the change to replicate.

Joe Murphy
Librarian and Technology Consultant
Library and Information Services
Kenyon College
murphyjm at kenyon.edu
740/427-5120

On Friday, August 23, 2002, at 06:24 PM, Reed, Tracey wrote:

> Ok, one more frustration.  Does anyone know how to share out the network
> printers for all users.  Local printers install for everyone.  The 
> network
> ones we need to go install for each user on every PC they'll touch.
>
> Y'all rock!
>
> -t
>
> ___________________
> Tracey Reed
> Webmaster
> Clearwater Public Library System
> treed at clearwater-fl.com
> If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then words are the doorbells 
> of the
> mind.
> -Josh Wilson, Australian journalist, The Weekend Australian, 2002




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