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Windows 95 Shared Printer with spaces in name problem
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20/12/2001 15:19:16
 
 
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20/12/2001 05:00:57
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Visual FoxPro
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Reports & Report designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00596611
Message ID:
00596976
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>Is anyone aware of specific problems using a printer shared from a windows 95 machine where the share name has spaces in it for example:
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>"Shared Printer"
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>It seems I cannot print to this printer no matter what I do unless i rename the share to have no spaces...
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>If this is a common problem this is fine but I dodn't have an explanation for it..
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>I ddid notice that it tries to make you create a name with no spaces...
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>And on XP I get an error:
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>"The share name that you entered may not be accessible from some MS-DDOS workstations. Are you sure....?"
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>Can anyone shed some light on this problem. Perhaps a link to a msdn article
>that explains it's a known problem?
>
>
>Thanks!!!

Correct. W95 has a problem with long share names of any form. Stick to the standard DOS format of nothing bigger than an 8.3 format name.
Fred
Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP

foxcentral.net
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