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  1. May 17th, 2005, 12:59 PM #1
    rbrook
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    Printing from application to network printer...Nobody knows???

    Hope I'm on the correct forum for my question. I am naming a particular printer for a form to print to in my vb app. The printer is called "Form Printer on Server1" where Server1 is the server name the printer was installed on. On each workstation I installed that printer and the program works fine on all except two workstations. I have found that when I install the printer on those 2 workstations, the Windows 'Printer Install' software does not accept the way I type in "Server1" and it changed it to something like "sErVer1" on one workstation and to "SERver1" on the other one. So when I run the app, the printer named in the app as being on "Server1" is not found and the data prints to that workstation's default printer.

    Does anybody know where Windows picks up the server name when you install a printer? I went into the hosts file and entered the IP address of the server and the correct 'case' name (as Server1) but that did not help. Any ideas?
    Last edited by rbrook; May 18th, 2005 at 08:20 AM. Reason: need help
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