About Printer Installation

She has: 54 posts

Joined: Sep 2001

Hi

Can a printer be installed by command line or prompt ?

I have a list of printers in HTML formate ,which are on the network. Can we make the installation of those printer by cliking the hyper link of that printer given on a webpage. like this

Click here to install the printer

i m trying this but this syntex is giving me error.

Confused

Hoping for replies

Bye and thanks in advance
Confused

"when one door of happiness closes
another opens;but often we look so long
at the closed door that we do not see
which one has opened for us "(Helen Keller)

They have: 49 posts

Joined: Dec 2001

You've had alot of views on this and no replies so I will be the first to reply. I don't know how much I can help but I'll try.

The only way I can think of to do what you are doing is to run a program when you click on the link. I don't know if you can run a exe file (like the printer installation file) through a hyperlink, I think it will just try to download the file, not run it.

You could possible write a very easy program in Java, VB, or possibly even JavaScript or VBSCript. When you click on that link, the program would execute, and all the program would do is run the printer install. In VB the function to run another program is "Shell". But I'm not sure of how you would do this over a network. Sounds like a fun project.

I'm sure the actual program itself wouldn't be too complicated, but I'd be alot of work to find out how to do this over a network.

Hope that helped some.

Krash_io
Recipebomb.com

She has: 54 posts

Joined: Sep 2001

Thanks for the idea !!!!

and thanks GOD that some body replied to this Post

They have: 49 posts

Joined: Dec 2001

Do you think you have an idea of how to do it? I have a general idea but not sure.

Krash_io
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