Need to print from DOS

[Guest]

Hi! I've read the recent threads on this subject and have not been able to successfully set up the printer to print from DOS. Current situation

We have 2 desktops - using WinME and a new dell laptop using XP pro. They have been successfully networked and mapped. The problem I face is that when I add the network printer it automatically assigns the port as the name of the computer\name of printer. I tried selecting LPT1 but it will not let me select it. So when I keyed: net use lpt1: \\computername\printersharename /persistent:yes it does not work. I don't know what to key in instead of lpt1 -any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Sincerely
Caroline

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP DTS]]

Add it as a LOCAL printer instead. What you're doing is the same as
"Capturing a printer port" in Windows 98/ME; this makes a UNC port appear as
local to the machine. Open a command prompt, run your "Net Use" commands to
set the UNC ports up as local, then install the print driver and assign it
to these "local" ports. I have an old Windows 95 application here that
doesn't print correctly to a UNC port, but prints fine to a "Captured"
printer port, and this fixes the problem perfectly on the new XP Pro
workstations we're getting.

Hal
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Hi! I've read the recent threads on this subject and have not been able to

successfully set up the printer to print from DOS. Current situation:

We have 2 desktops - using WinME and a new dell laptop using XP pro. They

have been successfully networked and mapped. The problem I face is that when
I add the network printer it automatically assigns the port as the name of
the computer\name of printer. I tried selecting LPT1 but it will not let me
select it. So when I keyed: net use lpt1: \\computername\printersharename
/persistent:yes it does not work. I don't know what to key in instead of
lpt1 -any suggestions? Thanks in advance!!

 

[Guest]

Thanks Hal I'll give that a try!