My second location runs NAV from a terminal server and they still use E-Ship to ship all UPS and FedEx out of the system. What is the best way to setup the UPS Label printer so the terminal server knows where to print. Say if you don’t have a terminal server you just set it up to go to the LPT port on the PC that it is connected, but for the branch office using a terminal server the printer is not attached to the terminal server.
Do you just map the LPT port to a network printer (share the printer off of the users’s PC)? Like this net use LPT3 \pcname\sharename /persistent:yes And then do you just put that LPT port in the E-Ship setup? Mine currently is like this in a way, but the LPT port in E-Ship is LPT3:. I am confused why the colon is after it.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks for the help. I am having some problems and that is why I ask. Thanks again.
Just buy a network adapter for the label printers and then in E-Ship for the port, just put the IP Address? Is that they way you would configure it in E-Ship. If so, that seems really easy and I can see how that would be more effective. Thanks again guys.
Yes best would be an official Zebra Ethernet adapter card for that printer. But other wise a good quality name brand IP adapter. Intel used to make the best ones, but they went through a patch of delivering some really bad stuff, and not sure if they even sell them still.
The issue is that I have seen cases where cheap Ethernet adapters can crash the Navision server. On workstations and of course servers, people generally use Quality equipment, but sometimes printers are not considered as so important, so they use $19.99 adapters. One client spent well over $10k just to find out where there network was dying and killing Navision, only to find that they had these cheap no name adapters on a hand full of printers. They didn’t turn out to be so cheap.
Thanks again for the advice. Since we just installed the FedEx module, I just ordered a new printer for FedEx with the built in ethernet adapter. At the same time, I am going to order the network adapter for the existing UPS printer that we have. Thanks again for all the advice. Depending if setup works correctly, I might be bugging you guys again.
Hey guys. I just go around to setting my new Zebra printer with IP up and I am having some problems. For the port name I should just put the IP address correct? I put in 10.10.0.220. Does it need to be \10.10.0.220 or something else? Thanks for the help.
I am trying to setup Navision 5 with UPS eShip on terminal server where the local printer is accross a T1 (1.5 Mbps) VPN connection. My label printer is a Zebra 2844 and I bought the ZebraNet PrintServer II. When I try to use the ip printer port on the terminal server, I don’t get an error, but nothing prints. I noticed that you said to share the printer I am not doing that. Is that Important?
Did you get this working. I have followed everything in this post and it is not working. All I get from my Navision provider is that Lanham eship does not support network printing and Lanham eship does not support Terminal Server. I have even tried to setup eship on the local PC using a Zebra print server. Test prints from windows work, but eship will not send to that printer.