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Guy Hocking
Hello there,
We have a corporate database written in Access, the frontend clients use
Access 2000 and XP, the backend uses Access XP.
The problem i am encountering is as follows -
Upon writing reports and assigning specific printer/s settings to these
reports, we are struggling to implement a "universal" printer naming
convention available accross ALL windows platforms.
There are 2 developers (one being myself), we both have Windows 2000 and XP
on our machines and would like to use them to develop this database.
However, the majority of clients are Win9x with around 20% being XP/2000.
When developing a report and assigning the printer setting to print to IE-
//SERVER01/PRINTER1 on Letterhead - doing this in win2000 produces different
results than doing this in Win98, as the printer and port settings are
different names/naming conventions in different OSs.
This is a big problem as only the OS the report was setup in can print the
report.... all the other clients get an error message stating the printer
cannot be found. When infact the printer IS setup, but the port and device
are a different name in this OS.
I hope you understand what i am getting at.
I was wondering if there is any way that Access can simply look for only a
printer name, or a selection of printers defined in Access universally. I
cannot understand why Access cannot pickup on the same printer in different
OSs, even tho the names and port names are different (because of the
different versions of Windows)!!
I have waffled on a bit and perhaps made myself unclear...... If anyone
needs more/less info let me know....
Eagerly awaiting your help
Guy Hocking
IT Consultant
BF.com
We have a corporate database written in Access, the frontend clients use
Access 2000 and XP, the backend uses Access XP.
The problem i am encountering is as follows -
Upon writing reports and assigning specific printer/s settings to these
reports, we are struggling to implement a "universal" printer naming
convention available accross ALL windows platforms.
There are 2 developers (one being myself), we both have Windows 2000 and XP
on our machines and would like to use them to develop this database.
However, the majority of clients are Win9x with around 20% being XP/2000.
When developing a report and assigning the printer setting to print to IE-
//SERVER01/PRINTER1 on Letterhead - doing this in win2000 produces different
results than doing this in Win98, as the printer and port settings are
different names/naming conventions in different OSs.
This is a big problem as only the OS the report was setup in can print the
report.... all the other clients get an error message stating the printer
cannot be found. When infact the printer IS setup, but the port and device
are a different name in this OS.
I hope you understand what i am getting at.
I was wondering if there is any way that Access can simply look for only a
printer name, or a selection of printers defined in Access universally. I
cannot understand why Access cannot pickup on the same printer in different
OSs, even tho the names and port names are different (because of the
different versions of Windows)!!
I have waffled on a bit and perhaps made myself unclear...... If anyone
needs more/less info let me know....
Eagerly awaiting your help
Guy Hocking
IT Consultant
BF.com