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Does anyone know how to develop a windows virtual printer such as "print to PDF" or MS-Office's "Image Writer" ???
I was currently asked to develop a similar kind of virtual printer device. Unfortunately I did never do anything like that and I don't know exactly which steps are involved.
Is it some kind of device driver that needs DDK, or is it just a piece of "normal" software that just needs to get properly registered into the registry?
I tried to look at windows' registry in order to get some hint and I actually found some voices that could be involved, so I think that maybe the second choice is a bit more probable. Also because I don't have any hardware to connect to...
If anyone knows where to get some more informations or maybe some example codes, please let me know !!!!
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Yes, it seems that these products are what I need in order to develop my specific application.
But, as a student, I would like to understand how these pieces of software are able to create a sort of "virtual printer port".
In effect, I would like to have a peep on the source code (or maybe just a hint...) in order to be able to do something like that.
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As far as I know if you want to integrate some functionality of any software into your application, you should find the product documentation or product SDK. Mostly what i have known before, if any person want to integrate Adobe product function into the application they have to purchase Adobe SDK documentation. Its provide an explaination about its system structure... Try to check the information on the website that I gave to you whether it has the product documentation or not. Or use google to search for it. Good luck!!!
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Hi, I have a problem that really wonder. I have 2 PCs in my network. The first PC could not PING to the second PC. When I use the PING command it display "Request Time Out" error message. But the first PC could access the second PC over the network and could also map a network drive for the share resource on the second PC.
Note: both PC are use static IP address.
Does anyone have any idea about that???
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Very likely one of the two PCs has a software firewall installed. It might be Windows XP SP2. You'll need to configure the exceptions appropriately.
If you enable the File and Printer Sharing exception in Windows Firewall (XP SP2), TCP ports 139 and 445 are opened, as are UDP ports 137 and 138. Windows Firewall also has a special rule that says that, if port 445 is opened, ICMP echo requests (pings) are allowed. The default configuration is to ignore all ICMP requests.
IIRC, this exception is not enabled by default even if you've configured shared folders before installing SP2. If you configure a shared folder after installing SP2, Windows asks whether you want to configure the File and Printer Sharing exception.
If you're in an Active Directory domain environment, I recommend you use Group Policy to enable port 445 in the domain firewall profile. This will allow you to use many monitoring and administrative tools.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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It seem to be in that case. One of my pc running windows xp sp2. And the reason that share the resource is upgrade the other machine to xp sp2 too. Now I need to be back to check it again. Thank you very much for your comment 
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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How to determine maximum IIS connections number under WinXP?
any ideas?
4apai
There're no impossible tasks. There're tasks that required infinite period of execution time.
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The version of IIS in WinXP supports either 5 or 10 connections - I don't recall which.
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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Roger Wright wrote:
The version of IIS in WinXP supports either 5 or 10 connections
How/where do you get this information roger?
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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If I could remember that I'd go check it again. I read it somewhere, possibly on Technet or MSDN. But it might have been in a book - I have more books than most county libraries - but I don't recall which one. If I run across it again I'll be sure to let you know...
"If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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Ok roger, if you found its source don't forget to let me know because I want to research on this point too.
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Can a windows service application can be made as invisible in Service Control Manager.
Please help me, if you have some idea/info about this
Thanks
Manjunath
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using TweakUI you can hide the specific icons in the Control Panel. But you want to hide the services itself from the SCM display?
Then the management of services will be a difficult task to even the System Administrator right?
Deepak Kumar Vasudevan
Personal Web: http://vdeepakkumar.netfirms.com/
I Blog At: http://deepak.blogdrive.com/
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Hello all,
my question is simple: if I open a file with CreateFile and
FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH and I write some data into it with WriteFile, do I
have to call FlushFileBuffers to make sure the data is written in the file?
I've noticed that FlushFileBuffers takes an enormous amount of time to
complete and I was wondering why. I'd like to avoid this and I was hoping
FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH could save me here.
Best regards,
George Ionescu
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Hello,
I am looking for ways to script/program the following on WinXP:
1. Install a loopback adapter.
2. Configure the IP address on it
3. Rename the connection name that appears in Network Connections
4. Unbind the Windows Filesharing Service from it.
Some research revealed the following options:
1. Install loopback adapter.
- Use devcon.exe available from MS.
2. Configure IP address.
- Use WSH
- I can also edit the registry directly
3. Rename the connection.
- Find the GUID of newly installed adapter, and set HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlNetwork{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}{$GUID}Name
4. Unbind FileSharing
I ran regmon while doing this manually, and noticed that it removes the adapter GUID from the following registry keys:
HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesLanManServer*
However, it also changes a binary key HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlNetworkConfig
Simply doing the first part does not result in an unchecked box in the adapter properties screen for File Sharing, so I assume the second step is also needed. However, I don't know how to generate the binary data.
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I am ok with using devcon.exe and WSH for the first two steps, and editing the registry for the third step is kinda dirty, but acceptable. It would be nice to find a cleaner method, as well as a solution for #4.
Thanks for your help!
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I'm using a 'WakeUp On LAN' Program, that sends 'Magic Packets' to a MAC-Address of a specified
PC - that works, when the Attribute for the Netbios-Card is set.
The 'Wake On LAN-Attribute' of the Netbios-Card must be set to 'Yes' or some else.
How can I solve this by using a C-Program? Is there anyone who knows a solution? 
Harry W. Diel
Systemmanagment
MS Software-Entwicklung
47475 Kamp-Lintfort
Germany
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I recently changed all the usernames and passwords on all my computers/accounts including file shares. I now have a problem where I do not have permission to access shares that I "have permission" to access. I have seen this before in 2003 Server I just had to clear the stored usernames and passwords. Does anyone know where this is in XP Pro? I can't find. Some help would be greatly appreciated.
Matt Newman
...armed with what? spitballs!? - Zell Miller
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[MSA] Matt Newman wrote:
I have seen this before in 2003 Server I just had to clear the stored usernames and passwords
What do you mean by clear user name and password? Do you set the password or delete the SAM file? Your SAM store at two place:
1. C:\WINDOWS\repair\SAM<br />
2. C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM
You have to delete these two file then restart your computer and log as Administrator with blank password but you have to create all user account again. But remember if you want to delete this file you must move your hard drive and connect it to another system then you hard drive would become D: drive. So your file would become:
1. D:\WINDOWS\repair\SAM<br />
2. D:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM
Hope that work!!!
A thousand mile of journey, begin with the first step.
APO-CEDC
Save Children Norway-Cambodia Office
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Control Panel > User Accounts. Select your account. In the task pane, under Related Tasks, click 'Manage my network passwords'.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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I want to create a string value DisableLockWorkStation under the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System. The user is not allowed to do it. (I want to do it for NT4, Win2k, and XP).
The manual way is to login as the administrator, run regedt32, and load the registry hive ntuser.dat file of the user from Documnents and Settings under HKEY_USERS. Afterwards create the new value and unload the hive.
But then the administrator should repeat it for every user. How can the administrator do a change that affects every user? I tried creating the value in the relevant key in [HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT]. It didn't affect either the user or the administrator.
Actually I want to do this during the installation of my program. So the solution has to be convertible to C++ for me.
Thank you...
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The way to edit this is to use Group Policy. See this page[^] for details (Google's cache of a page on microsoft.com).
I'd recommend asking the administrator to do this. If you're in an Active Directory network environment the administrator can do this by creating a Group Policy object with the setting; place all the computers you want the setting to affect in the same Organizational Unit in AD, and link the GPO to that container. If you want a global policy for your organisation, create the GPO in the domain root.
If you must do it on a local system through code, you can use the IGroupPolicyObject interface to edit the local GPO.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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