When you connect to a normal shared printer a driver is installed on the
remote workstation to use when you print. The OneNote print driver makes no
such provision - even though it looks like you're connecting to it from B,
no OneNote print driver is ever actually installed on B so it can't do the
printing.

I would guess there is also an issue where the print target is not a device
but rather an application and since Machine B doesn't have that application
it doesn't really know what to do with the print output.

Bottom line: The OneNote print driver wasn't designed to be shared that way
and while I agree it would be a useful feature, it's not very surprising
that it doesn't work.

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-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com



"MichaelH" <MichaelH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2D93F238-5BDD-4E84-8CBB-146FCEE61D76@microsoft.com...
> How to install the printer wasn't my question and the answer is actually
> technically inaccurate.
>
> The issue isn't how to install a ON printer to a machine that doesn't have
> ON but rather why doesn't printing to a shared ON print target work?
>
> It is currently possible to install ON on machine A, share the ON printer
> from machine A and set up a printer machine B which links to the ON
> printer
> on machine A. That part works as well as it does with any normal printer.
>
> Unfortunately when one prints something on machine B to the shared
> printer,
> machine A will pop up a dialog that reads "Onenote cannot find the file
> specified" and leave you with a freshly opened ON window with a brand new,
> but blank, page.
>
> "Rainald Taesler" wrote:
>
>> MichaelH shared these words of wisdom:
>>
>> > I've got several machines on my network and don't need ON installed
>> > on each one but would like to be able to print to my main ON machine
>> > from the others. I've shared the "Print to OneNote" printer and
>> > connected from another machine but when I print I get a message on
>> > the ON machine that the "file cannot be found" and I end up with a
>> > blank page in ON.
>>
>> The "Send to OneNote printer only works when ON is installed on the
>> machine. And it cannot be installed separately.
>>
>> Rainald
>>
>>