Getting the network address path of a printer

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by Wayne Tomlinson >> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 0:36:24 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone had experience in the getting the the network address of a printer. ? The app.printer.getPrinterName method only returns the friendly address of the printer or which is how it is mapped on the client. I need to obtain the exact name of the printer how it appears on the network.

Any help would be appreciated ?

cheers Wayne

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by BeeJay >> Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:53:54 GMT

I don't believe JADE provides this facility built in, but my question would be why do you want to know this as it's the friendly name you need to use to print with via JADEs built in printing facilities?

Is it because you're using some form of print queue processing that will run the report "overnight" and this report processor is running on a different machine that may have a different friendly name for the desired printer? In this case, why not have your application give them a list of available printers as viewed by the machine that will eventually run the report?

Hope that helps,
BeeJay.