Printing under Windows 98

[Ethan Galstad]

Hi Peter - we've run into a problem where one our of county offices
switched to Win98. They are running WinPmail 3.01b on a peer-to-peer
network (Windows networking) and are unable to print Pmail messages.
Every other app is able to print fine.

The old fix for this problem under Win95 was to make sure that there
were no spaces in the shared printer name. That "fix" doesn't work with
Win98. I assume there is something a little different about the way
that printing is handled in 98.

BTW: Printing to a local printer or to a *real* network printer works
without a problem (We have a Novell 4.11 network locally).

If anyone has figured out a way to "fix" or bypass the printing problems
in Win98 (using peer-to-peer networking), let us know.

TIA

Ethan Galstad
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LAN Administrator
University of Minnesota Extension Service
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egal...@extension.umn.edu

>
> Has anyone any experience of this diabolical combination, especially
> printing problems. I have rather said I will sort this out for a
> client on Friday !
>
> The above is all the info I have, except that the problem is unique to

> p-mail.
>
> Any help appreciated
>
>

[David J. Kocmoud]

Ethan Galstad <egal...@extension.umn.edu> wrote in article
<3648514C...@extension.umn.edu>...

> Hi Peter - we've run into a problem where one our of county offices
> switched to Win98. They are running WinPmail 3.01b on a peer-to-peer
> network (Windows networking) and are unable to print Pmail messages.
> Every other app is able to print fine.
>
> The old fix for this problem under Win95 was to make sure that there
> were no spaces in the shared printer name. That "fix" doesn't work with
> Win98. I assume there is something a little different about the way
> that printing is handled in 98.
>
> BTW: Printing to a local printer or to a *real* network printer works
> without a problem (We have a Novell 4.11 network locally).
>
> If anyone has figured out a way to "fix" or bypass the printing problems
> in Win98 (using peer-to-peer networking), let us know.

Have you tried capturing the network printer to an LPT port? e.g. LPT3:
Also make sure you're running WinPMail/32 instead of WinPMail/16, if you're
running Win95/Win98/WinNT.

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[Ole Sloth]

Try to delete the printers and reinstall them !

Ethan Galstad wrote:

> Hi Peter - we've run into a problem where one our of county offices
> switched to Win98. They are running WinPmail 3.01b on a peer-to-peer
> network (Windows networking) and are unable to print Pmail messages.
> Every other app is able to print fine.
>
> The old fix for this problem under Win95 was to make sure that there
> were no spaces in the shared printer name. That "fix" doesn't work with
> Win98. I assume there is something a little different about the way
> that printing is handled in 98.
>
> BTW: Printing to a local printer or to a *real* network printer works
> without a problem (We have a Novell 4.11 network locally).
>
> If anyone has figured out a way to "fix" or bypass the printing problems
> in Win98 (using peer-to-peer networking), let us know.
>