Re: Printer Icon NOT in Notification Area

Alan,

I appreciate your response to my question however the
information you provided did not solve my problem.

The firewall was not enabled on my clients. I then enabled
the the firewall and opened the ports for file sharing
listed in:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ports.asp

After rebooting the client I tried printing from several
programs and still, no icon in the sysytem tray.

Can you recommend any further actions I can take to enable
this feature?

>-----Original Message-----
>If the firewall is enabled on the clients you will need

to turn on the ports

>for file sharing for this functionality to work even

thought the clients do

>not share a printer.
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ports.asp
>How to Open Ports in the Windows XP Internet Connection

Firewall

>--
>Alan Morris
>Windows Printing Team
>Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;

[ln];kbhowto

>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and

confers no rights.

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>"Mike" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in

message

>news:16c7801c4175c$1c4858f0$a101280a@phx.gbl...

>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently upgraded all my department's workstations to
>> Windows XP Professional from WIN2K. In the past when a
>> print job was sent to a network printer an icon would
>> appear in the notification area until the job was

printed.

>> Now that I have upgraded, none of the workstations will
>> show the icon. This Documents Pending item is listed in
>> Customize Notifications within Taskbar and Start Menu
>> Properties but no change in the situation is apparent if
>> the item is hidden or always shown. This feature was

very

>> worthwhile for showing when a print job was complete for
>> larger print jobs or when the printer was very busy.
>>
>> The Windows XP Professional documentation

states: "While a

>> document is printing, a printer icon appears in the
>> notification area. When this icon disappears, your
>> document has finished printing."
>>
>> How can I turn this feature on???
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>

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