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#142922 - 2005-07-05 10:32 AM delete all printers before connecting new ones
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Hi,
I am new to Kix and as I am connecting printers I figured that if I got a mobiles user taking his laptop to different branches will end up with heaps of printer connections. So i was wondering if there is a way to delete all existing printer before connecting the one they need for the site?
I already searched arround and coulnd't fint anything - sorry if this was already covered.
Thanks for your help.
Kat
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#142923 - 2005-07-05 10:52 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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try:
delprinterconnection("")
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#142924 - 2005-07-05 10:53 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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and this is in the manual.
on your search trip, I suggest you always include the manual to it, k?
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#142925 - 2005-07-05 11:05 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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Tried it and it is not working get an error code 30
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#142926 - 2005-07-05 11:06 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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besides I checked the manual ...

Edited by Kat (2005-07-05 11:06 AM)
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#142927 - 2005-07-05 11:07 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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30 says:

The system cannot read from the specified device.
 
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#142928 - 2005-07-05 11:13 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
Kat Offline
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yep, saw that. Is there a way to use a wild card?
I tried
deletePrinterConnection ("*")
deletePrinterConnection (*)
deletePrinterConnection ("\\*")
but nothing worked.
any ideas?
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#142929 - 2005-07-05 11:26 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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Ok it seems like I really have to read more carefully the manual as it it must be 'DelPrinterConnection' and not 'DeletePrinterConnection'.
Still now I am getting 1801 error which means that the printer cannot be found.
@ Lonkero: Sorry, if I sounded a bit harsh I am just trying now for 3 days to get this going.
Kat
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#142930 - 2005-07-05 11:43 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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kat, sure.
what more you try without success, that more tense you become and more mistakes you make, like with the name here
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#142931 - 2005-07-05 11:51 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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Thx,
this all gets worse as I am not very good in scripting anyway.
When I started I thought map some printers no problem and then I had to work out all kinds of stuff like how to determine in which subnet the user is ... Got that all running fine just cannot find I way to delete all printers first
At least I am getting now 'cannot find printer' which is better than the one error before.
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#142932 - 2005-07-05 11:56 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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Which version of KiXtart are you using?
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#142933 - 2005-07-05 11:59 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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good question,

I just checked to make sure it's version 4.23.0.0
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#142934 - 2005-07-05 01:22 PM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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next question is, what version of kixtart you are using?
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#142935 - 2005-07-05 01:25 PM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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richie was faster.
and is there network printers available for it to demap?
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#142936 - 2005-07-05 01:36 PM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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yep, there are.
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#142937 - 2005-07-05 01:55 PM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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k, add this code at the end of your script:
Code:

function DelPrinterConnections() 
dim $c,$bk,$conn 
$c=0 
$bk="HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections" 
$conn=enumkey($bk,$c) 
while @error=0 
 $c=$c+1 
 $conn=delkey($bk+"\"+$conn) 
 $conn=enumkey($bk,$c) 
loop 
endfunction


and, where you did call the delprinterconnection(""), replace it with DelPrinterConnections()
let us know did that work, k?
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#142938 - 2005-07-05 02:45 PM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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works so far fine just it deletes only 2 of the current 4 network printers. But I think I go ahead tomorrow as it is quite late here (10.30pm) and I have to be back to work at 8.30am.
Thx for the help - be back tomorrow and tell you how go.
Kat
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#142939 - 2005-07-05 02:48 PM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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2 was left?
so, I would concentrate on those two.
most likely they are the cause why kixtart's delprinterconnection is failing.
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#142940 - 2005-07-06 01:37 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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Hi Lonkero,

got it going! All I needed to change on your function was the counter. It seems like the key numbering are going in .5 steps and not in 1. Therfore every second printer was skiped. I changed your counter $c=$c+0.5 and it works perfectly!

Thanks heaps for that! now I can start writing the rest.

Kat
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#142941 - 2005-07-06 04:38 AM Re: delete all printers before connecting new ones
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LOL
Jooel won't admit there is anything wrong with his UDF. It deletes evey second printer because whenever a printer is deleted, it skews the index.
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