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Title: How to add a network printer in 64bit code
Post by: carpet on August 14, 2015, 04:08:51 AM

Hi,

I'm upgrading a script which maps network drives and printers, now in Windows 8 the mapping of network drives has stopped working.

I have converted to 64bit script and now the drives are mapping but now there is no 64bit extender for printer support ?

Is there a way to map a printer using 64bit ?

Also is the Printer Extender going to be upgraded to 64bit anytime soon ?

Thanks

Title: Re: How to add a network printer in 64bit code
Post by: td on August 14, 2015, 07:39:39 AM

You don't need to run a 64-bit version of a script on Windows 8 in order for mapped drives to work. You can map drives using the 32-bit version. The most common cause of networks mapped drive problems in Windows 8 is UAC and the fact that UAC works a little differently on Windows 8 than earlier UAC enabled versions of Windows. You can find out more by reviewing the following Tech Database article. Pay particular attention to the Windows 8 comments at the end of the article.

Also note that there are currently not plans port the Printer extender to 64-bit.

Title: Re: How to add a network printer in 64bit code
Post by: carpet on August 14, 2015, 08:04:54 AM

Thanks TD, you mention a Tech Database article, do you have a link to it ?

Thanks

Title: Re: How to add a network printer in 64bit code
Post by: td on August 14, 2015, 08:23:26 AM

Sorry about that. Here is the link

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/UAC+Mapped~Drives~Issue~with~UAC.txt (http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/nftechsupt.web+WinBatch/UAC+Mapped~Drives~Issue~with~UAC.txt)

If you can't resolve the problem after reading the article, perhaps post a small example of how you are trying to map drives.

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