Re: Group policy

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 10:25:08 -0700

Try unsharing it and reshare it with a short name that has no spaces.
(Spaces are not valid in NetBIOS names, and this may be part of
what is getting in your way) 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"!!bogus" <hello@microb.com> wrote in message
news:DhPSb.68336$Kg6.880210@news20.bellglobal.com...
> Yes. It is shared as "Printer", so that is what I tried to use, but for
some
> reason it doesn't work.
>
> net use myprinter \\d1npq821\printer
>
> -- 
> Thank you
> Please post only
> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%234dlIp85DHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> There's no printer of that name. Can you see it in network neighbourhood.
Is
> it shared.
>
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.g2mil.com/Dec2003.htm
> "!!bogus" <hello@microb.com> wrote in message
> news:4gISb.45074$mf4.1676202@news20.bellglobal.com...
> > I tried both suggestions with no luck. I also tried quotation,
apostrophe,
> i
> > tried using the network name and the share name.
> >
> > even the vbscript (test.vbs as i named it) didn't work. When I comment
out
> > the on error, i get "There is no printer called ... on ..."
> >
> > -- 
> > Thank you
> > Please post only
> > "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message
> > news:ecmz6k75DHA.1664@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Enclose things with spaces in inverted commas.
> >
> > net use myprinter \\myserver\HP LaserJet
> >
> >
>
>

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