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by aktribes

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I have began the process of migrating our 98 machines to W2K and come across a printing problem. When documents are printed, strange characters are printed in place of bullets. Our print server is still based on an NT 4.0 Server. Any help would begreatly apprecited.

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by sxs_dazer

you can possibly try and update your printer drivers for the printer might not have a certain font. who knows, but it's always good to have an updated driver.

by chris..

make sure that the additional drivers section of the printer properties has the Win2k drivers available. The 4.0 drivers are most likely the issue.

by hal 9000

Or Native Mode?

Native is the default if you are running on Native Mode there will be major issues with communicationg with the NT 4 Print Server.

We will need a bit more info here with exactly how W2k was installed and what programs are wrunning on it as well as what it is being used for.

If you post a Question in the Q & A section with all the details you'll get a much faster responce as you are notified via e-mail when ever anyone responds and more likely than not you will find someone in you're time zone who is able to help you out instead of the time consuming process that goes on in the discussuin section.

But if all else fails feel free to contact me via the Peer Listings and I'll do what I can to help you out but as I'm in Australia there will most likely be a time lag between when you send an e-mail and get a responce.

If the Print Server was working properly prior to the Y2K install I would be looking at the Y2K install as you're problem rather than messing around with printer drivers for the NT 4 unit. But I'm working on a lot of assumptions here and may be quite incorrect as to what the Y2K unit is actually doing. I'm presuming that it is the Data Storage Server with maybe the programs installed on it and used on the terminals. Is thsi something like what is going on?

Col

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