Re: Printer notification

(E-Mail Removed) (Don) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> We just switched from Novell to Client for Microsoft networking in our
> office. With Novell, we could configure it so that when a print job
> was finished, we would get a printer notification to that effect at
> our workstations. This popup notification was much more effective
> than the printer icon that comes and goes in the system tray now.
> We're a very busy office and the popup which remained on the screen
> until we clicked on it would serve as a reminder that we had jobs
> waiting at the printer to retrieve.
>
> We can't seem to find a way to do the same under Client for Microsoft.
> Is there such a configuration or something in Windows or a third-party
> utility that will do this? I'm thinking of writing my own program to
> watch for the disappearance of the printer icon to prompt a popup
> notification, but would like to have to avoid doing that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don

The following will work on Windows 2000 and XP. Beyond that I'm not
sure.

On the client computers, go to your printer folder. Select File ->
Server Properties. Click the advanced tab and you should see an print
notification option.

Hope that helps.

Jason
http://www.techtutorials.com
http://www.mcmcse.com

On 17 Jul 2003 03:02:29 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) (jason) wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) (Don) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
>> We just switched from Novell to Client for Microsoft networking in our
>> office. With Novell, we could configure it so that when a print job
>> was finished, we would get a printer notification to that effect at
>> our workstations. This popup notification was much more effective
>> than the printer icon that comes and goes in the system tray now.
>> We're a very busy office and the popup which remained on the screen
>> until we clicked on it would serve as a reminder that we had jobs
>> waiting at the printer to retrieve.
>>
>> We can't seem to find a way to do the same under Client for Microsoft.
>> Is there such a configuration or something in Windows or a third-party
>> utility that will do this? I'm thinking of writing my own program to
>> watch for the disappearance of the printer icon to prompt a popup
>> notification, but would like to have to avoid doing that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Don
>
>The following will work on Windows 2000 and XP. Beyond that I'm not
>sure.
>
>On the client computers, go to your printer folder. Select File ->
>Server Properties. Click the advanced tab and you should see an print
>notification option.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Jason
>http://www.techtutorials.com
>http://www.mcmcse.com


Thanks, Jason. I guess it's time for us to step up to Windows XP.
That didn't work on our client stations, all of which run Windows 98.

Don