RE: USB Printers

["Brian Henderson" brian-henderson@xxxxxxxx]

As much as I'd like to attribute to malice all which issue-ith from Bill's Underworld Lair, in this particular case I
think the need to get to a printer - that's attached locally - via a network, would be such an odd
request that it would
never occur to a program designer to create a channel for it.

The problem is that Windows recognizes the difference between a local printer and a network printer,
and when the
printer's local you aren't presented with an option of going through a network to get to it. Why
would any reasonable
person need to?

So, my fellow unreasonable folk...that said, I can almost guarantee there's a way to fool Wingnut
into letting you get
to a local printer through a network...but I don't know what that way might be.

_Brian H.

-----Original Message-----

From: Patricia M Godfrey

Harry's question ("since I can print to a USB printer from Xy if that
printer is attached to another printer on the network, why can't I set up
something to send it to itself over the network?") is perfectly valid,
and it rather looks as if the answer is, Because Big Brother Bill doesn't
think you need to--or doesn't want you to.
Patricia