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.
Has anyone successfully shared and used the ON print device from another
machine?

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

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
>
>

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
>>
>>

> 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
> >>
> >>
>
>

"MichaelH" <MichaelH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7B14410B-A68A-4F8F-B867-83EE46AC7909@microsoft.com...
>> 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.

Setting up the printer is not the same as using it. I can show up on
Jennifer Anniston's doorstep with a breath mint and a corsage but that
doesn't mean I have a date. :) Windows doesn't know if you have a viable
printer to print to until it tries to print. Have it send a test document
to that printer you just set up on B and you'll find the same result.


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

Ben M. Schorr - MVP shared these words of wisdom:

> Setting up the printer is not the same as using it. I can show up
> on Jennifer Anniston's doorstep with a breath mint and a corsage
> but that doesn't mean I have a date. :)

ROFLMAO

Rainald

MichaelH shared these words of wisdom:

>> 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.

It seems that you are mixing *physically* existing printers and
*virtual* printers.
The latter have to be installed on the computer.
With OneNote it's not different from any other virtual printers - be
it FinePrint or Adobe Acrobat.
You won't be able to produce a PDF the way you are thinking it might
be done with OneNote. [1]

In so far what I said in my last posting was anything but "technically
inaccurate" as you pleased to characterize it ..

Rainald

[1] What you report on your efforts to produce a PDF with "CutePDF"
just underlines the situation I had been talking about in my last
posting