On 2/8/2010 10:04 AM, Lem wrote:
sdmusicmaker wrote:
Thanks. Here is some more einfo for you.....Dell has always been in
the list for me. The driver is for a Dell 2330d printer BUT although
there are a lot of drivers avaiable and I have tried them all, the one
that works with Terminal Server is the one obtaind by using the
Windows Update feature in the ad printer wizard. It is not avaivle
from dell bu tonly from th eWindows update servieces. Who knows why
but that is the way it works. Please refer to the link below article
to see how it works. I have done this on many PC's for a client and it
works perfectly as long as DELL is listed in the Manufactures list.
One this one PC DEll is not listed. Google is silent on the issue.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winlog...ign/winup.mspx

I would like to know if that manufactureers list is updatable.

sd

"Etaoin Shrdlu" wrote:

On 2/5/2010 3:10 PM, sdmusicmaker wrote:
Ok,
I'm adding a printer on an XP Pro machine. Done it hundreds of
times. This
time when i get to the screen that has the Manufacturers listing on
the left
side and the printer on the rigth DELL is not listed on the left
side. I need
it to be there so I can use the Windows Update button to get a
specifiic
driver but without DELL listed on the left side as a manufacturer
it's a no
go. The driver I need is not on a disk or download form a site and
can only
be obtainded from the WIndow Update button on the printer install
wizard.

Is there a text file or something on the XP workstation that feeds
that left
side of avaiblebe manufactureres that i can put DELL in that will
make it
come up?

Could not find any info on this anywhere.

SD
That list is for basic drivers supplied with XP, and I don't think
the list has been updated since XP was released in 2001. Why can't
you get a driver from Dell? What's the model number of the printer?
.


I don't understand how your computer(s) had Dell listed. Mine don't and
the KB article that I linked to earlier doesn't mention it either.

Notwithstanding that, you probably can find what you're looking for by
going to the Windows Update Catalog site (as explained in the very
article that *you* linked to). I just did and there are 9 different
drivers available there for the Dell 2330d Laser printer.

Start he http://catalog.update.microsoft.com/


Just for information purposes, that MS website uses ActiveX, so you
won't be able to get to it using Firefox.