From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Scott Meyers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Printing permissions problem under Win7 Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:10:21 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1293559875 21641 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2010 18:11:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:11:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 28 19:11:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXe0s-0004qH-Gh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:11:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53854 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXe0r-00044v-V4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:11:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43515 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PXe0X-00044m-MY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:10:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXe0V-0007PW-LS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:10:49 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:53465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PXe0V-0007P5-5O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:10:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXe0Q-0004Wq-8G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from 130-94-161-213-dsl.hevanet.com ([130.94.161.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from NeverRead by 130-94-161-213-dsl.hevanet.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:10:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130-94-161-213-dsl.hevanet.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:77939 Archived-At: On 12/28/2010 10:00 AM, Deniz Dogan wrote: > I'm probably mistaken but shouldn't that be \\Patroklos\...? According to http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Windows-Printing.html, > You can also use a printer shared by another machine by setting > printer-name to the UNC share name for that printer—for example, > "//joes_pc/hp4si". (It doesn't matter whether you use forward slashes > or backslashes here.) Also, if you go the backslash route, you have to quote the backslashes, yielding something like \\\\Patroklos\\... I tried it :-) Any other suggestions? Scott