Add network printer without NET USE?

[Jim Warner]

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

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

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

opens the remote printer and adds the connection to the client
--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[matt]

"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