> 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

How can you explain my ability to set the printer up on machine B and print
to it (as I would with any shared printer) if the driver doesn't support that?

Windows goes through the motions and I'm left with a printer on machine B
that can be selected and printed to.

> 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.

It's not actually machine B that appears to have a problem. Printing on
that machine appears to work fine.

You may be on to something though with regard to the non-hardware nature of
that printer.

I did a test with CutePDF which is another software "printer" and it has
similar problems when a print job comes from another machine on the network.


"Ben M. Schorr - MVP" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> --
> -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
> >>
> >>
>
>