printing from a dos program to a remote network printer

[John Smith]

we have a dos banking app here
works fine under win 2000, but
its unable to print to a kyorosea
printer( we haven`t tryed w/ other)
connected to an other win 2000 ws

the app itself have only epson and
hp printers in its printer setup

any help is welcome

 

[KAS]

Sounds like the app has printer definitions hard coded into
it. One option might be to see if you can add the Kyocera
printer to the 2000 pc and see if the program picks up the
new printer.

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

we have a dos banking app here
works fine under win 2000, but
its unable to print to a kyorosea
printer( we haven`t tryed w/ other)
connected to an other win 2000 ws

the app itself have only epson and
hp printers in its printer setup

any help is welcome

John, you need to capture one of your local printer ports, because DOS
apps print to local printer ports, not Windows printers. Typically, you
have to determine if the app can print to LPT2 or LPT3. Set up the
printer in the app that most closely matches the network printer you
want to print to. Keep in mind that alot of "clone" printers can
emulate more popular models, such as HP LaserJets.

Once you've done that and set the app to print to a particular LPT port,
capture the port from the command line:

net use LPT[x]: \\[server name]\[printer share name]

hth