Capturing a printer port on a standalone networked printer

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Hey all,

Small office with a linksys router running dhcp
Xerox phaser 8850 connected to the network with a static IP.
All systems are windows XP.
Systems connect and print fine.

When users connect to the corporate network using Cisco VPN client 4.6 they
are unable to print.
On the client i've allowed local lan access.

heres the question...
is there a way to capture the printer port of a stand alone printer to lpt1?
NOT net use lpt1 \\server\share!!
There is no server only a network card in the printer.

When i attempt to ping the IP address of the printer with the -a switch, it
doesn't return a netbios name otherwise i could try \\ip_address\netbios_name

thank you for you help
 
The majority of LAN printers support LPR (unix-style) printing, and all this
requires is that your computer can 'see' the IP address of the printer.

It's installed under Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs>Add/Remove Windows
Components, as 'Other Network File and Print Services'

Then all you need in the printer settings is to create an LPR port with the
right IP, and for a single printer the port name is normally 'raw'
 
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