I have a small network setup usinf win98,win200 and now win xp. I have always had networked printers shared on the system using a batch file calling the net use commands
eg
net use lpt5: /DELETE
net use lpt5: \\computername\sharedprinter /PERSITENT:YES
trying this same line on the win xp machine i get no errors and says the command was accepted and when i go to dos and type net use it display the printer was setup correct. I can also on the win xp machine type print /D:lpt5 test.txt and it will print. When i run my dos program on the win xp machine (p.s. which does work on all the other machines) it will not print to the remote computer.if i remap the net use to use lpt3 and run the dos program i works.
Any ideas on how to setup lpt4-8 as remote networked printers for dos.
Thanks In Advance
eg
net use lpt5: /DELETE
net use lpt5: \\computername\sharedprinter /PERSITENT:YES
trying this same line on the win xp machine i get no errors and says the command was accepted and when i go to dos and type net use it display the printer was setup correct. I can also on the win xp machine type print /D:lpt5 test.txt and it will print. When i run my dos program on the win xp machine (p.s. which does work on all the other machines) it will not print to the remote computer.if i remap the net use to use lpt3 and run the dos program i works.
Any ideas on how to setup lpt4-8 as remote networked printers for dos.
Thanks In Advance