Windows 2000 Professional

[jcfrasco]

I have a couple of older programs that run in DOS and print to LPT 1. We have all of our network printers setup with HP Jet Direct cards and on our Win 95 machines I just created a Jet Direct port on it and trapped LPT 1 to use for the DOS program. However, on our newer Windows 2000 Pro machines I can't find anyplace that allows me to trap LPT ports when I install the printers. All the pther programs work fine with the Jet Direct ports but the DOS programs can't get through because they will only look for LPT ports. What are my options?

Thank you,

jcfrasco

 

[butchrecon]

Unless someone esle says otherwise I do not believe ther is a way (natively) to capture a printer port in Windwos 2000 since Win2K has little DOS support. You may have to physically hook up a printer to the LPT port. Please let us (Tek-tips members) know if the solutions we provide are helpful to you. Not only do they help you but they may help others.


James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[thekid]

The net use command will capture the lpt1 port.
net use lpt1: \\servername\Printers-share-name /persistent:yes

 

[butchrecon]

This works with Win2K? Thats cool. I will have to try that. Does this work with TCPIP based printers as well? Please let us (Tek-tips members) know if the solutions we provide are helpful to you. Not only do they help you but they may help others.


James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[butchrecon]

I was unaware that this did work with TCPIP based printers. Any thoughts on it thekid? Please let us (Tek-tips members) know if the solutions we provide are helpful to you. Not only do they help you but they may help others.


James Collins
Computer Hardware Engineer
A+, MCP

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

 

[jcfrasco]

Thank you "thekid",

I'd like to try your advice on using the net use lpt1 command, but I'm not as savvy with the is as you obviously are. I would appreciate if you could elaborate a little more on wwhere I would enter this command and if there are any other commands I could possibly use in this way.

Thank you for your original response.

jcfrasco