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Printing to Network printers in DOS mode

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Hello I was wondering if there is a way to print to Network printers via dos mode in windows 2000.

Name: dude
Date: July 18, 2002 at 14:31:51 Pacific

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Try this. Net use lpt2 \\servername\printername Then if you want to print the directory for instance, you could redirect it to the printer by typing this. dir > lpt2

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Use the Net Use command from a DOS prompt. Check out this Microsfot Article. Good Luck How to Print to Network Printer from MS-DOS-Based Programs (Q154498) http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q154498

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Did you ever get this to work. We are having a problem with using different lpt ports. Please let me know.

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