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to: JEAN PARROT
from: Roy McNeill
date: 2002-11-12 20:44:50
subject: printing to USB

On (02 Nov 02) JEAN PARROT wrote to ROY MCNEILL...

 JP>   Good morning to you Roy, how are you today ?

Would you like the five second fib, or the twenty minute truth??

 RM> Tried that. Shared it as HP656. When I try to capture LPT1 to HP656, I
 RM> get an error window that says "Cannot access HP656. Your computer is
 RM> either not configured for the local network, or not connected to a
 RM> running network.

 JP>         This is not intended as a stupid remark but did you do File &
 JP>         Print sharing on your Network ? So easy to overlook. I have.

The target printer is marked as shared. The problem seems to be that
capturing only works if there is an actual network in existence. This pc is
solo, no network.

Cheers


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