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From: "John Angelico" <talldadatkepl dot com dot au>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 00:05:32 +0900 (EST)
Subject: [os2genau] Network Printers and a Schizophrenic Win 95!!

Hi all!

I have spent a goodly amount of precious time again learning why I
love OS/2.

I have to have a Win95 partition on my laptop (IBM TP760EL). 

On my main OS/2 desktop machine (here where I am now typing this
email) I have a nice HP-6L - works REAL fine.

I have various printer objects in my OS/2 Printers folder:
HP-Laserjet, connected to LPT1 and Postscript, printing to file (for
creating PDFs with Ghostscript), with others not germaine to this
problem.

On the laptop when I connect it to the LAN, I can create a Printer
which happily connects to the HP-Laserjet on LPT1.

However, when I create a separate printer for Postscript output I
cannot persuade Win95 that there is a network and that the printer is
to be found *out there* on the wire.  That is, as I said in <subj>,
Win95 is detached from reality. The Printer is always required to
work offline.

It also has a split personality because half of it can find the HP
but the other half can't find the Postscript. The rest of it (via My
Computer) can easily find the shared drives. 

I can't use the wizard to find the network because Network
Neighbourhood is simply in a world of its own. If I start from
Network Neighbourhood I can see the Postscript, start the stupid
wizard but it still tells me the printer is offline. I can even
create a shortcut to the Psotscript but that doesn't make a scrap of
difference.

This email is an attempt to avoid having Win 95  pass it's stupid
personality problems over to me, by asking for help on this list.



Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldadatmelbpc dot org dot au or talldadatkepl dot com dot au
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Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:14:29 +1000
From: Ed Durrant <edurrantatbigpond dot net dot au>
Subject: Re: [os2genau] Network Printers and a Schizophrenic Win 95!!

John,
   Do you have administrator rights when you are trying to install the
printer ?

   I take it you're trying to access a printer that is shared from an
OS/2
Server (or Peer) box ?

   This can be done - we do it allthe timre at work. The usual "gotcha"
is that you don't have full administrator rights when setting up the
printer.
Once set up you don't need this level of acces, user is normally fine
(as
long as the printer share is set to give Create access to the USERS
group).

Cheers/2

Ed,



John Angelico wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> 
> I have to have a Win95 partition on my laptop (IBM TP760EL).
> 
> On the laptop when I connect it to the LAN, I can create a Printer
> which happily connects to the HP-Laserjet on LPT1.

Perhaps you should use LPT3: ??? i.e. a non-existant port ?

> 
> However, when I create a separate printer for Postscript output I
> cannot persuade Win95 that there is a network and that the printer is
> to be found *out there* on the wire.  That is, as I said in <subj>,
> Win95 is detached from reality. The Printer is always required to
> work offline.
>
