Web Printing Question?

pk237776

Taken from MS Press Practice Test

You are the desktop administrator for the Sales dept. The laptops run XP Prof. The fullfillment dept has a web server running Server 2003. The web server is named fullfillment.contoso.com and can be accessed from the Internet. The server has a shared printer named orderprinter. One of the sales managers is travelling and needs to print to this. What should she use....

a) http://fullfillment.contoso.com/printers/orderprinter
b) http://orderprinter.fullfillment.contoso.com
c) http://fullfillment/orderprinter
d) http://fullfillment.contoso.com/orderprinter
e) http://fullfillment/printers/.printer

Answer is a but i do not understand why it is not d. If you know the share name of the printer I thought you could type in: http://printserver/sharename?

Mishra

Read http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2519

pk237776

okay, thanks for the link. Have read it but am still not 100% SURE. Can I just confirm:

To connect a web printer from the wizard use: http://printserver/printers/sharename/.printers

If you want to connect to a printer through a web browser:
http://printserver/sharename (would give you paper options etc and connect to printer at the top so would work albeit you need to click connect)
http://printserver/printers/sharename (would automatically install the printer)

Is this correct?

Webmaster

The following should clear it up: (let me know if it doesn't though)
www.techexams.net/technotes/xp/printing.shtml#iis

pk237776

No sorry, it is still not clear. After reading that I think the answer should be d

e.g. "If you want to connect to a printer directly, to manage print jobs for example, use the URL http://servername/sharename, where sharename is the name of the shared printer."

Webmaster

pk237776 wrote:

e.g. "If you want to connect to a printer directly, to manage print jobs for example, use the URL http://servername/sharename, where sharename is the name of the shared printer."

The first paragraph in that 'Printing and IIS' section in my TechNotes is about 'managing' printers. The second is about "the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), which allows clients to print to an URL instead of an UNC path."

This time read carefully
www.techexams.net/technotes/xp/printing.shtml#iis

So yes, the answer is indeed A. because the sales manager needs to print to the printer, not manage it.

pk237776

Webmaster wrote:

pk237776 wrote:

e.g. "If you want to connect to a printer directly, to manage print jobs for example, use the URL http://servername/sharename, where sharename is the name of the shared printer."

The first paragraph in that 'Printing and IIS' section in my TechNotes is about 'managing' printers. The second is about "the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), which allows clients to print to an URL instead of an UNC path."

This time read carefully
www.techexams.net/technotes/xp/printing.shtml#iis

So yes, the answer is indeed A. because the sales manager needs to print to the printer, not manage it.

Sorry but although I think your notes are fantastic I think this section is particularly unclear. At no point in the IPP paragraph does it explain about connecting to a printer in any other way than through the wizard or the point and print option. there is no syntax that says to connect to a printer using IPP you must use: http://printserver/printers/sharename.

Webmaster

No need to apologize... I agree it's not the clearest part of my TechNotes. However, it does include the correct method and syntax for using IPP:

IIS also supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), which allows clients to print to an URL instead of an UNC path. The URL is http://servername/printers/sharename/.printer.

You can see this in the Windows XP screenshot in this topic:
http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2519

other way than through the wizard

That is the way. The other urls are used for 'managing' the printer, not for printing to the printer*

So, the BEST answer to that practice question is:

f. http://fullfillment.contoso.com/printers/orderprinter/.printer

*But since f. (which is the complete version of A) isn't listed...

The author of that question out-tricked himself. What I have in my answer F., in my TechNotes, and on that screenshot is 'the' way to 'connect to an IPP printer with the purpose of printing to it'. BUT, when you use the syntax in answer D, you open the printer's page (so you can manage it and the jobs in it given that you have permissions to do so). From their you can click Connect under Printer Actions to connect to that printer, like a detour. Good question. Typical for Microsoft. So yes, the answer to that question is D.

manny355

Hi thought that I would chime in here, I read the question and immediately thought the answer would be D. Because I read the webmaster's technote and from reading the printing portion of my ms press book.

I also understood that they were looking for the best answer out of the ones given because none of them are exactly correct...as stated by the correct answer given by Johan.

the technote is just a little vague on the why but excellent in everyother aspect, and given that, I don't know why anyone would think the answer would not be D.

manny355

should have said A...LOL