My business network is on domain "housewares" and is a windows only
network. My other business is on domain "gardens" and has a D3
account. The two businesses are physically located miles apart. We
connect through a vpn. When I am at the housewares business I get on
the vpn and access the garden company's D3 system. I would like to be
able to print to my printer at housewares. I navigated from garden's
server to my housewares pc and installed the housewares printer on the
garden server. I can now vnc into gardens server and print a word
document to my housewares printer. I did a dev-make under Pick:

Hdev-make -t NTPrinter -n 62 -a "\\housewarespc\F12 housewares
laserjet"

When I print to F12 it goes into the LISTPEQS but does not go to the
windows spooler.

Before I could set up the printer on the garden server I had to enter
my houseware domain\username and password. Is d3 not able to cross to
another domain?

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm guessing that your dev-make is part of user-coldstart (the H at the
front), so would ONLY work if the VPN were connected when D3 is
started.

What you need to do is to install the printer "locally" (this will
create a new port on the server) - that way the printer/port will
always be present, and the dev-make will work. Windows can then look
after the "connectivity bit" for you

The issue you have here is purely "windows" - you may also want/need to
setup "trust" between the domains. Call in a dime a dozen "windows
guru" and you should be in business

HTH

Ross Ferris
Stamina Software
Visage > Better by Design!

On Oct 14, 6:26 am, colleensi... (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:

colleensisco (AT) hotmail (DOT) com wrote:


1. do you know the ip address of the "housewarespc" ? if so can you
ping it ? or can you ping the housewarespc name. if you cannot ping the
name, then create the printer using the ip address ie dev-make -t
ntprinter -n 62 -a "\\192.168.1.xx\F12"
ensure that the d3 service is started as a user, not as a system
service. ensure that the user & password is a local user (with the same
password) on the housewarespc ws
we have done this MANY times. it works without any problems. to check
if you have permissions (from a d3 perspective) at tcl "! net view
\\housewarespc" you should get a list of all of the shares on the local
ws. if you get a permission denied then make the corrections shown
above. good luck !

Hi
There is nothing wrong with using D3 as a service. We have used it this way
since it was issued.

On GARDENS create a Local Printer with the path \\housewares\f12 and share
it. Personally I would keep the share name short and avoid spaces. Then
when you create your D3 printer use the share name not the path.

Peter McMurray
"DrewConboy" <dconboy (AT) drexelmgt (DOT) com> wrote

The trouble with direct references like this is, I believe, that if
\\housewares isn't available when D3 starts, you are screwed. That is
why you need to establish a "local port" to \\houseware\f12", then
start this "local printer" .... windows will then "do the right thing"
when \\housware\f12 gets on the network (may have to unclick "work
offline" from windows printer manager)


Excalibur wrote:

Hi Ross
I think that you misread things. I said create a LOCAL Printer I did not
use a direct reference. The poor person must be well confused by the
comments now.
A LOCAL printer must be created in NT
The LOCAL printer in NT must have the path \\housewares\f12
It must be SHARED using a Sensible SHARE NAME preferably short and no spaces
One then refers to the SHARE NAME in the D3 dev-make.
One can run D3 as a service without any trouble.
Clear enough!
Regards
Peter McMurray
"Ross Ferris" <rossf (AT) stamina (DOT) com.au> wrote

Hi
I am intrigued. Why would anyone run their business on a freeby? I am
quite sure there is no such thing as a free lunch, so what is in it for
Hamachi or LogMeIn?
Regards
Peter McMurray
"diets" <diets (AT) homemail (DOT) co.za> wrote

diets wrote:
Peter McMurray wrote:
Uh... because it's better than the costly alternative?

Does the word "Linux" ring a bell with you? =`8^o

I don't know from hamachi, outside of a sushi bar, but I do know
many businesses, including the one that employs this programmer,
that use "freeby" software.

--
frosty

Thank you for this! Can't believe I wasted any time
with Microsux VPN s/w when Hamachi is so easy to
install, configure and use. And it works! =`:^)

--
frosty