Jim,

Thanks. The printer is installed locally on one machine, and it is setup as a shared printer. On all other workstations the printer has been added as a network printer.

The problem is that I want a hard-coded reference to the default printer name. This works for the workstations, as they all know the printer by the "name of the machine" + the share name.

The problem is on the local machine that has the printer physically attached to it. On that machine, to briefly change the printer to the default, I have to reference it without the machine name.

The problem (as I see it) is that the Windows add printer dialog won't make a second reference to the printer, where, even though it is actually local on the machine, it would see it as a network printer. (I know for example that I can successfully do this with a network drive - so I would think I could do it for a printer - e.g.: net use \\mymachine\c$ f:\ )

But so far I can't figure out how to do it. Hopefully I explained this properly. Maybe you just can't do what I'm trying to do.

Thanks,
David Schlesinger





>As far as I know, you have to set printers on each workstation.
>
>In other words, you have to have the printer installed local nad shared on some PC, then on the other workstations point to that printer.
>
>good luck.
>
>
>>I created code to get and set the windows default printer, as per code and other threads on here (UT).
>>(I need to do this because the driver for my Zebra S600 printer doesn't work right if the printer is not the default)
>>
>>Each workstation on my customer's network shares the label printer. I have hardcoded the share name: '\\BUD3\Zebra Stripe 600' as the printer to set default to when they want to print from my label printing application.
>>This works fine when the user is on a workstation on the network. But if the user is on the local machine.. the printer name is 'Zebra Stripe 600' (without the machine name).
>>
>>I tried to get windows to treat the printer as a network printer,even though it is on the local machine, but windows doesn't see to do want to do this. I tried adding the printer as a network printer, even though it was already installed as local, but windows (win2k pro) won't make a second instance of the printer.
>>
>>I ended up writing code in the app to check to see what user/workstation is in use, and if the local machine that the printer is on - then set the printer name without the machine name.
>>
>>Any suggestions appreciated.