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I'm not a database person so this has me perplexed. Basically my friends business has a database that was built for them, they can't get into the design view because of user rights problems. The company that made it is long gone. Any ways, they print mailing labels directly from it on a Dymo label printer, now the printers drivers has a database connectivity plugin. What I'm confused about is how does the database know the printer? Let me try to explain this.
The PC the printer was hooked to went down yesterday, I had to reinstall XP for them so everything was lost. Previous to yesterday 2 other PC's there printed from the label printer which was shared out. I installed the printer drivers and it works on the main PC, but the other 2 can't see it. All I can think of is it has something to do with the PC's looking for a certain name on the shared printer. I spent a few hours messing with it and can't get either 2 of the PC's to print. They network with the PC fine besides that, I added the printer 5 or 6 times using different shared names. Since I can't get into the backend of the database I have no idea what printer it's looking for. There has to be some method here since it's not using the windows default printer.
anyone have a suggestion here? If I go to the printers under control panel I can print a test page form both PC's fine, so the label printer is working with the PC's, just not in the database where they need it.
The PC the printer was hooked to went down yesterday, I had to reinstall XP for them so everything was lost. Previous to yesterday 2 other PC's there printed from the label printer which was shared out. I installed the printer drivers and it works on the main PC, but the other 2 can't see it. All I can think of is it has something to do with the PC's looking for a certain name on the shared printer. I spent a few hours messing with it and can't get either 2 of the PC's to print. They network with the PC fine besides that, I added the printer 5 or 6 times using different shared names. Since I can't get into the backend of the database I have no idea what printer it's looking for. There has to be some method here since it's not using the windows default printer.
anyone have a suggestion here? If I go to the printers under control panel I can print a test page form both PC's fine, so the label printer is working with the PC's, just not in the database where they need it.
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