10d PTP and Windows 2000

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I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for
a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in.

TIA

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>I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
> USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for
> a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built
> in.

WinXP is not Win2000. You should probably head here and download a driver
http://alpha02.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900

If you had XP then you'ld probably connect automatically

Toa

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In article <hP8Me.923$AT7.66@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
Wolfgang Schmittenhammer <tonguesten@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP..
>Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster,
>should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its
>heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I
>believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure.

Windows 2000 is a step up from Windows NT, which is a more
secure design that Windows 95/98/ME are. But as a result of that
additional security, some drivers which run as user programs will not
work in NT/2000 (and presumably in XP, though I will *not* use XP,
because of its nasty behavior when any hardware changes are made to the
system. Since my only token Windows machine is *not* allowed access to
the internet (for security reasons), the requirement to re-register if I
change things like graphics cards or disk drives makes me jump through
more hoops than I am willing to consider.

I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only
remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual
income tax software run.

>bruceh wrote:
>> I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
>> USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for
>> a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in.

My *guess* as to what PTP is would be "Photo Transport
Protocol", based on the newsgroup in which I find this mention. I find
another protocol "PPTP" (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) mentioned in
/etc/services on a recent OpenBSD machine. However, this does not sound
like a protocol which Windows is likely to support. :-)

Good Luck,
DoN.

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DoN. Nichols <dnichols@d-and-d.com> wrote:

> I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only
> remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual
> income tax software run.

TurboTax Web. No, really, it's quite good. I've used it for the past
several years and it's been very friendly to non-Windows browsers.

Having said that, I use Microsoft Money in Virtual PC for day to day
finance stuff. It's the one Microsoft product that gets my dollar for
actually being straight-up better than the competition. It's the only
thing I use Virtual PC for apart from the occasional test to see if
something is compatible with IE, which I care less and less about as
time passes.

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From: "DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@d-and-d.com>

| In article <hP8Me.923$AT7.66@newssvr22.news.prodigy.net>,
| Wolfgang Schmittenhammer <tonguesten@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP..
>> Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster,
>> should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its
>> heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I
>> believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure.
|
| Windows 2000 is a step up from Windows NT, which is a more
| secure design that Windows 95/98/ME are. But as a result of that
| additional security, some drivers which run as user programs will not
| work in NT/2000 (and presumably in XP, though I will *not* use XP,
| because of its nasty behavior when any hardware changes are made to the
| system. Since my only token Windows machine is *not* allowed access to
| the internet (for security reasons), the requirement to re-register if I
| change things like graphics cards or disk drives makes me jump through
| more hoops than I am willing to consider.
|
| I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only
| remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual
| income tax software run.
|
>> bruceh wrote:
>>> I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
>>> USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for
>>> a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in.
|
| My *guess* as to what PTP is would be "Photo Transport
| Protocol", based on the newsgroup in which I find this mention. I find
| another protocol "PPTP" (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) mentioned in
| /etc/services on a recent OpenBSD machine. However, this does not sound
| like a protocol which Windows is likely to support. :-)
|
| Good Luck,
| DoN.
|
| --
| Email: <dnichols@d-and-d.com> | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564
| (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html
| --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---

PPTP -- is a MS Networking protocol (TCP port 1723) for tunneling (shimming) one or more
protocols inside a TCP packet.

PTP - Picture Transfer Protocol is a high level programming protocol for use over; USB, IEEE
1394 (FireWire) or even IP and it is a standard for exchanging images with and between
digital still photography devices.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/e [...] otocol.htm

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