network printing

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When you open the properties of the remote printer and you are
administrator, you can change the settings on the remote system.

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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"Tim" <tdavis@ats-computers.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Windows XP Home PC connected to a Windows 2000
> Server environment. The server has a printer connected
> to lpt1, and my XP PC also has a printer connected to
> lpt1. The server's printer is shared on the network. I
> have the shared printer setup on the XP PC. For some
> reason the network printer on the XP PC shows up as using
> lpt1, when I know I manually setup the printer to use
> port \\servername\sharename. It's like the XP PC's
> network printer properties are the same as the printer
> properties on the server. What's even stranger is that
> when I make a change to the either the server's printer
> properties, or the XP PC's network printer properties,
> the change is reflected on both property windows. I
> think this is the reason that I cannot print to my local
> printer. The lpt ports are confused.