Dos Print - XP Home

[pgr]

Hello!

I have a small network with xp home edition machines. On machine X I shared a local printer called epson.

From machine Y I want to be able to print from an old DOS program and I issued the command:

net use lpt1 \\X\epson /persistent:yes

I've no error on mapping the printer. But when I print from a DOS window from machine Y, like for example dir > lpt1, I've got the follwing error: Access Denied.

I don't have any domain, all computers bellong to the same workgroup, everyone are administrators and they don't have any passwords.

I tried to find an answer in this forum but I didn't. Can anyone help me?

Many thanks.

 

[bcastner]

Your lack of passwords in a network setting is a serious limitation under Windows networking, as it is in your case:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312055&Product=winxp

Give everyone passwords. Heck, use autologon or give them all the same password. But give them passwords.

Additional help for DOS printing under XP networks:

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/printfromdos.htm