Forum Moderators: open
What is it you want to achieve? What will clicking the link actually do for a user? Please explain it from that point of view and people here can provide suggestions.
We have four shared printers in our corporate network. If you access any of these shares (say \\computer\printname) it will ask you if you want to setup the printer (this is the nature of Windows 2000). I'm designing an Intranet that I would have liked to have just provided those links so one could click and wala, it asks if you want to set it up or brings up the printer queue window if you already have it installed. It's nothing more than a convenience.
<added> *smack* yes, you have, you said so in your first post. </added>
It will work if it's a shared folder, but not if it's a printer. Don't ask me, I just work here.
BTW, thanks for fixing the subject whoever did it :)
net use lpt1 \\server_name\printer_name
(btw, I think its voila not wala.)
(btw, I think its voila not wala.)
Indeed. It's a word borrowed from French, and in turn derived from two French words which would translate as "see there" or "look there". It took me several seconds to figure out that "wala" meant "voila".
(I'll distract you from my lack of knowledge of Windows by showing off my random tidbits of etymology.(Not to be confused with entymology, of which I know even less.))
The 'net use lpt1 \\server\printer' approach looks good as long as there aren't too many options for printers, so that a separate port number can be assigned each one. I'm not sure what happens if you try to redirect a port that is already directed to another printer, but replacement of the mapping would not suprise me in the least.
