Comments on: Getting the Printer Port http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/04/05/getting-the-printer-port/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: mp3rat0r http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/04/05/getting-the-printer-port/#comment-42233 mp3rat0r Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:48:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1827#comment-42233 <p>@fzz<br> First command doesn't help. There is no entry containing the "Ne0x:" info.<br> Your second command works perfect.<br> Thanks a lot:-)</p> @fzz
First command doesn’t help. There is no entry containing the “Ne0x:” info.
Your second command works perfect.
Thanks a lot:-)

]]> By: fzz http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/04/05/getting-the-printer-port/#comment-31740 fzz Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:13:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1827#comment-31740 <p>OK, a message I posted yesterday didn't come through, so I'll express it differently.</p> <p>This is simple from the command line. Either</p> <p>rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xg /n "\servernameprintername"</p> <p>which displays the information in a dialog, or adding another option to it,</p> <p>rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xg /n "\servernameprintername" /f "filename.ext"</p> <p>which stores the information AS UNICODE TEXT in the file named filename.ext, or by querying the registry directly and parsing the result,</p> <p>for /F "skip=3 tokens=2 delims=," %a in ('reg query<br> "HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionDevices"<br> /v "\servernameprintername"') do echo %a > filename.ext</p> <p>which also stores the result in the file named filename.ext.</p> <p>All it takes is running one of these commands from VBA using Shell and reading filename.ext.</p> <p>Depressing how few presumably sophisticated Windows users still know how to use the command line.</p> OK, a message I posted yesterday didn’t come through, so I’ll express it differently.

This is simple from the command line. Either

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xg /n “\servernameprintername”

which displays the information in a dialog, or adding another option to it,

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xg /n “\servernameprintername” /f “filename.ext”

which stores the information AS UNICODE TEXT in the file named filename.ext, or by querying the registry directly and parsing the result,

for /F “skip=3 tokens=2 delims=,” %a in (‘reg query
“HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionDevices”
/v “\servernameprintername”‘) do echo %a > filename.ext

which also stores the result in the file named filename.ext.

All it takes is running one of these commands from VBA using Shell and reading filename.ext.

Depressing how few presumably sophisticated Windows users still know how to use the command line.

]]> By: Richard http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2008/04/05/getting-the-printer-port/#comment-31707 Richard Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:22:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1827#comment-31707 <p>Simple point of grammar – I believe you meant to write, "If you're a late binding kind of a guy..." in the text just below the first image. You typed "your" when "you're" or "you are" seems more appropriate.</p> Simple point of grammar – I believe you meant to write, “If you’re a late binding kind of a guy…” in the text just below the first image. You typed “your” when “you’re” or “you are” seems more appropriate.

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