capturing printer port

T

tom

What's the easiest way to capture an lpt1 or lpt2 local
port to a network printer to print from a DOS based
program.
 
H

HMahatma [MSFT]

At command prompt type :
net use lpt1: \\printservername\sharedprintername /persistent:yes

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