[AccessD] A2K3 cannot recognize default printer?

All,

I got it!  It turns out that only connecting to the printer over the
network was insufficient - the network guy said something about that
model HP using virtual ports or some such.  I didnt really understand
what he was saying.

So here is what I did - 

1) I added a printer locally
2) Selected the HP 8000 from the list
3) Assigned it a new port with the same address as the port of the
network-connected printer.  This made sure that the drivers were
installed on the local machine.  
4) Set the new printer as the default.

So now the local machine has drivers for that printer, and I think
(but am not sure) that it is now spooling its own print jobs rather
than letting the server do it.

Not being a crack hardware/network guy, I can't tell you why this is
working - but it is working.

If anyone has insight as to why this worked, please feel free to
expound.  I'm pretty curious.

-Christopher-


---- Original Message ----
From: cfoust at infostatsystems.com
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K3 cannot recognize default printer?
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:35:18 -0700

>You would not *believe* the oddities with Access and new printers.  
>If
>the 8000 is state of the art, it's possible that A2003 just can't 
>talk
>to it because it doesn't yet know how.  Can you configure the 
>printer to
>use a different driver or to masquerade as an earlier model?
>
>Charlotte Foust
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Christopher Hawkins [mailto:clh at christopherhawkins.com] 
>Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 2:26 PM
>To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
>Subject: [AccessD] A2K3 cannot recognize default printer?
>
>
>Here's the situation:
>
>A client has discovered that from any workstation, if an HP LaserJet
>8000 printer is set as the default printer, Access 20003 thinks it 
>has
>no default printer installed.  If we set the default printer to be 
>any
>other printer, Access has no problem detecting it as the default
>printer.
>
>I do not have a clue as to what to look for here - I'm a lowly 
>business
>app developer, not a network tech.  I've already been all over the
>Microsoft Knowledgebase with no luck.
>
>Has anyone ever seen anything like this?  I'm really stumped.
>
>-Christopher-
>
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