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DOS Printing from XP Client
Name: Jayesh Date: January 11, 2006 at 23:24:44 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: P4 3.2 GHz /512 MB
Comment:
not able to map a lpt printer port on a winXP or 2000 client computer user is a in a power user group of the local computer when trying to map the drive the printer server asking for authintication
Name: James Greenwood Date: January 12, 2006 at 03:06:20 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried authenticating yourself to the system? You haven't described the problem very clearly. Why do you want to print through the command prompt (DOS) anyway?
Name: Jayesh Date: January 13, 2006 at 04:26:47 Pacific
Reply:
Finally I found the solutino Exactly my problem was i m unable to print from DOS to a nw printer the LPT1 port is not been mapped with the command net use lpt1 \\servername\sharename because my user is having power user rights in the local PC he shud have to be in a admin group which doesn't allow in my nw policy so i have tried with mapping to LPT2 its working fine in this only difference is this when i give print command i have to give type filename >lpt2
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