I need verification on this. Someone told me that in a Win2000
environment, to add a network printer to a Windows workstation (both within
the same domain), you simply need to enter the WINS name of the printer on
the command line [ i.e., \\SERVER\PRINTER_QUEUE ] and nothing else.

He said that the NET USE command is not even needed, which I found very
surprising.

I’m not currently in a network environment where I can test this, so I
decided to post here to verify whether this is true.

TIA

"start \\server\printer" from command line.
From Start Run \\server\printer

opens the remote printer and adds the connection to the client
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"Jim Warner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I need verification on this. Someone told me that in a Win2000
> environment, to add a network printer to a Windows workstation (both
> within
> the same domain), you simply need to enter the WINS name of the printer on
> the command line [ i.e., \\SERVER\PRINTER_QUEUE ] and nothing else.
>
> He said that the NET USE command is not even needed, which I found very
> surprising.
>
> I'm not currently in a network environment where I can test this, so I
> decided to post here to verify whether this is true.
>
> TIA

"net use" can be used to map a network printer to an lpt port. Very
handy if you have nasty old dos apps laying around and you need them to
print to a network printer.

"net use lpt1 \\server\printer"

Matt

Jim Warner wrote:
> I need verification on this. Someone told me that in a Win2000
> environment, to add a network printer to a Windows workstation (both within
> the same domain), you simply need to enter the WINS name of the printer on
> the command line [ i.e., \\SERVER\PRINTER_QUEUE ] and nothing else.
>
> He said that the NET USE command is not even needed, which I found very
> surprising.
>
> I’m not currently in a network environment where I can test this, so I
> decided to post here to verify whether this is true.
>
> TIA