help with dos program printing

[Roy]

We are having trouble using Microsoft Knowledge Base
Article - 314499.
It says to type:
net use lptx\\printserver\sharename/persistent:yes
What name do we use for printserver?
What name do we use for sharename?
We have tried:
net use lpt1\\scb64890_2\hp4100/perisitent:yes
(This is redirecting to the printserver)
and
net use lpt1\\Bobby\HPLaserJ/persistent:yes
(This is redirecting to a printer on another computer.
This use to work under window 98)
Both do not work.
Thank you for your time and help.
Roy

 

[Brian Smither]

[posted and mailed]

We have tried:
net use lpt1\\scb64890_2\hp4100/perisitent:yes
(This is redirecting to the printserver) and
net use lpt1\\Bobby\HPLaserJ/persistent:yes
(This is redirecting to a printer on another computer.
This use to work under window 98). Both do not work.

First, I notice no spaces where spaces are needed. Did you get the command
line right?

net use lpt1<space>\\Bobby\HPLaserJ<space>/persistent:yes
replacing <space> with a space.

You may be referenced to Bruce Sanderson's article describing the process
to redirect LPT or PRN output to a shared printer (regardless how it is
connected). It seems to explain better the same concepts you've studied in
the MS Knowledgebase article. That's fine as far as it goes.

I'm assuming that you know for a fact whether or not these printers are
what are coming to be known as "Win-Printers," as brain-dead as are "Win-
Modems." Hopefully they are not.

But if you are running Win2K or XP, there is also the issue of those
operating system's unwillingness to re-render ASCII output to the inate
methodologies of the printing subsystem. In other words, unless the printer
can understand a plain text data stream, you will need a utility to
overcome this obstacle. Win-Printers cannot understand plain text (ASCII)
data streams.

If they are *not* Win-Printers, then we can look elsewhere.

If they are Win-Printers, and such as I mentioned before, Win2K(SP2) and
WinXP will require a small, neat, and inexensive utility to capture the
ASCII output and re-render it using the operating system's print subsystem.
I recommend DOSPrn <http://www.dosprn.com>.