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10d PTP and Windows 2000
I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. TIA |
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I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP..
Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster, should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure. bruceh wrote: I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. TIA |
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I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. WinXP is not Win2000. You should probably head here and download a driver http://alpha02.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 If you had XP then you'ld probably connect automatically Toa |
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I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over
USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. WinXP is not Win2000. You should probably head here and download a driver http://alpha02.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 If you had XP then you'ld probably connect automatically That Canon site shows TWAIN driver for Win 2000. So does PTP communicate with the TWAIN driver? |
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Wolfgang Schmittenhammer wrote: I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP.. Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster, should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure. Not really, win2000 is/was a reincarnation of Win NT, the business-oriented OS, with more peripheral support added in the way of drivers and usb support, which NT lacked. XP is a continuation of development beyond 2000, albeit with a few downsides like inability to run some older programs, and requiring driver updates for some peripherals. Colin D. |
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Wolfgang Schmittenhammer wrote: I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP.. Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster, should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure. Windows 2000 is a step up from Windows NT, which is a more secure design that Windows 95/98/ME are. But as a result of that additional security, some drivers which run as user programs will not work in NT/2000 (and presumably in XP, though I will *not* use XP, because of its nasty behavior when any hardware changes are made to the system. Since my only token Windows machine is *not* allowed access to the internet (for security reasons), the requirement to re-register if I change things like graphics cards or disk drives makes me jump through more hoops than I am willing to consider. I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual income tax software run. bruceh wrote: I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. My *guess* as to what PTP is would be "Photo Transport Protocol", based on the newsgroup in which I find this mention. I find another protocol "PPTP" (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) mentioned in /etc/services on a recent OpenBSD machine. However, this does not sound like a protocol which Windows is likely to support. :-) Good Luck, DoN. -- Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- |
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"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message ... In article , Wolfgang Schmittenhammer wrote: I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP.. Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster, should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure. Windows 2000 is a step up from Windows NT, which is a more secure design that Windows 95/98/ME are. But as a result of that additional security, some drivers which run as user programs will not work in NT/2000 (and presumably in XP, though I will *not* use XP, because of its nasty behavior when any hardware changes are made to the system. Since my only token Windows machine is *not* allowed access to the internet (for security reasons), the requirement to re-register if I change things like graphics cards or disk drives makes me jump through more hoops than I am willing to consider. I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual income tax software run. bruceh wrote: I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. My *guess* as to what PTP is would be "Photo Transport Protocol", based on the newsgroup in which I find this mention. I find another protocol "PPTP" (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) mentioned in /etc/services on a recent OpenBSD machine. However, this does not sound like a protocol which Windows is likely to support. :-) Don't know if you're trying to make a funny but PPTP was actually created by Microsoft. OpenBSD supports it and it's a little better respected now than during it's initial implementation. http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/Pr...qs/PPTPfaq.asp Greg |
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DoN. Nichols wrote:
I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual income tax software run. TurboTax Web. No, really, it's quite good. I've used it for the past several years and it's been very friendly to non-Windows browsers. Having said that, I use Microsoft Money in Virtual PC for day to day finance stuff. It's the one Microsoft product that gets my dollar for actually being straight-up better than the competition. It's the only thing I use Virtual PC for apart from the occasional test to see if something is compatible with IE, which I care less and less about as time passes. -- Jeremy | |
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bruceh wrote:
I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. WinXP is not Win2000. You should probably head here and download a driver http://alpha02.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 If you had XP then you'ld probably connect automatically That Canon site shows TWAIN driver for Win 2000. So does PTP communicate with the TWAIN driver? According to http://www.canon.co.jp/Imaging/dc/PDF/10D_PTP-e.pdf "The PTP function is only available to Windows XP or Mac OS X (10.1 or later) users. This function provides a simple means of downloading JPEG images to your computer. To use this function, set [Communication] to [PTP]" Windows 2000 would use TWAIN to transfer images via camera USB connection, but IMHO it is too slow. Just use a card reader, it's so much faster. |
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From: "DoN. Nichols"
| In article , | Wolfgang Schmittenhammer wrote: I am ignorant of what PTP is, but I am absolutely sold on Windows XP.. Very rarely does it ask for a driver.. Windows 98 a complete disaster, should be shot with a silver bullet and a wood stake driven thru its heart. It took more time installing drivers than it did the OS. I believe Windows 2000 is a rehash of 98, not sure. | | Windows 2000 is a step up from Windows NT, which is a more | secure design that Windows 95/98/ME are. But as a result of that | additional security, some drivers which run as user programs will not | work in NT/2000 (and presumably in XP, though I will *not* use XP, | because of its nasty behavior when any hardware changes are made to the | system. Since my only token Windows machine is *not* allowed access to | the internet (for security reasons), the requirement to re-register if I | change things like graphics cards or disk drives makes me jump through | more hoops than I am willing to consider. | | I use unix variants for most of what I do, and the only | remaining program for which I absolutely *need* Windows is the annual | income tax software run. | bruceh wrote: I have a Canon 10d which can be configured to communicate over USB via "PTP". When I connected it to my win2000 system it prompts for a driver. Is there such a thing? I was told that Win/XP has PTP built in. | | My *guess* as to what PTP is would be "Photo Transport | Protocol", based on the newsgroup in which I find this mention. I find | another protocol "PPTP" (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) mentioned in | /etc/services on a recent OpenBSD machine. However, this does not sound | like a protocol which Windows is likely to support. :-) | | Good Luck, | DoN. | | -- | Email: | Voice (all times): (703) 938-4564 | (too) near Washington D.C. | http://www.d-and-d.com/dnichols/DoN.html | --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero --- PPTP -- is a MS Networking protocol (TCP port 1723) for tunneling (shimming) one or more protocols inside a TCP packet. PTP - Picture Transfer Protocol is a high level programming protocol for use over; USB, IEEE 1394 (FireWire) or even IP and it is a standard for exchanging images with and between digital still photography devices. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/enc...r_protocol.htm -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm |
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