Printer Question

karpet22

On one of the practice tests I came up to two questions which seemed contradictory. One mentioned that to access a printer over the network I had to type www.companyname.com/printers/printername another said I had to type www.companyname.com/printername. Can someone tell me which is the correct solution? Thank you.

NozzaC

As far as I know it's http://printservername/printername and if you don't know the name of the printer you can browse to it using http://printservername/printers. That certainly works on my setup.

But when you use the Add printers function and it asks for a url, the following is suggested under the field: http://servername/printers/printername/.printer. That works in that wizard.

On my setup my IIS workstation is called xp-wks-2 and the printer is called AGFA. When using the Add Printers wizard on another workstation I have to use http://xp-wks-2/printers/AGFA/.printer - using http://xp-wks-2/AGFA will not work. But I can browse to it using the latter URL in IE. If I do browse to it, it tells me the network name of the printer is http://xp-wks-2/printers/AGFA/.printer.

gravyjoe

To access a printer over the network using a web browser, type in http://print_server/printer_name.

I'm not sure if www.companyname.com/printers/printername would work or not, but even if it did, it wouldn't make sense to type in all of that, when someone could type in www.companyname.com/printername instead.

Jordus

Well i dont know about "printers" but i just went to [URL="file://\\%computername%\printers and faxes"]\\%computername%\printers and faxes[/URL] and it worked just fine to show my available printers.

It likely just works either way.