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Printing, Faxing and Scanning with Vista A forum for using printers, scanners and fx with Windows Vista. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan) |
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Improvement to printer management.
This is the only way I can find of even potentially contacting Microsoft for
free (Not using a phone incident to report a bug). Situation:- One print server called Server 1 with a printer attached. One copy of vista. Add the Printer as http://server1:631/printers/usb-printer all is well... Server1 is removed from the network and replaced with Server2 So I try to change the port of the printer to: http://server2:631/printers/usb-printer, I'm told this is not allowed. So I try to remove the printer and then remove the port and start again completely. Unfortunately When clicking delete printer (I am running with admin permissions at the time) I am advised "Printer Cannot be removed. Make sure you have typed the name correctly and that the printer is connected to the network" What is that about? You need to have a printer physically present to remove it? I might well want to remove it as it is not present anymore! Luckily as the new print server was similar I managed to fool vister into looking at server2 by adding an entry to windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts like the following:- [IP Address of Server2] [Name of Server1] Can checking a printer is present be removed from the delete printer functionality? Cheers, - Anthony ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/com...i nt_fax_scan |