-=> Quoting Wolfgang Taube to Ben Carpenter <=-
 
 BC>> Explain what you mean by a WIN printer?  If you know some printer
 BC>> tricks I could use a couple three.  I have a network with a printer on
 BC>> one puter.  The one I run most DOS applications is not the one with the
 BC>> printer.  I can print across the network fine from Win applications but
 BC>> not from DOS.  Any ideas.
 
 WT>> May be that there is no redirection for LPT1: to the network-printer.
 WT>> If you enter 'NET USE' in the DOS-prompt you can see which devices
 WT>> have   connection to a server.
 WT>> If you don't see a redirection for LPT1: you can try to add one with
 WT>> 'NET USE LPT1: \\server\sharename', where server is the computer with
 WT>> the   printer connected.
 WT>> If you don't know the name of the server and the sharename it may be
 WT>> that   you can see this in the windows-environment. The most easy way
 WT>> should be   to look which printers you can select in the print-dialogue
 WT>> of a windows-  application.
 
 BC> I gave it a try and was not able to get it to take the redirect.  I got
 BC> in to help and did every thing I could to try and get it to work.
 BC> Error I received was that it could not find the other computer.  In the
 BC> same DOS window after it could not find the other computer I did a ping
 BC> and it found the computer that way.  I tried using the computer name as
 BC> well as the IP address of the other computer but could not get a
 BC> connection.

 WT> Did the error say that it was not possible to find the computer or was
 WT> it   not possible to find the sharename of the printer?

 WT> On the network in the office it normaly works to redirekt the printer,
 WT> but   there i am working with windows NT 4.0. But as far as i know
 WT> there are no   differents in the basic commands of NET ... .

 WT> Is it possible to make a redirektion for file-access on the other
 WT> computer   in the dos-shell?

 Hey if at first you don't succeed try try again.  I had kind of not
 thought about it till I just got this message from you and for the life
 of me I can't remember just what it said it could not find.  But I said
 to my self what the heck lets give it another try and it printed out
 your message just fine.  I have a feeling it was an error in the typing
 that caused it to fail before.  Ok I am back after trying the program
 that I was most interested in printing from and it worked.  So now my
 question is can this string be put in the autoexe.bat or the config.sys
 so that it is automatic every time the computer boots?

 I can access files on the other computer in DOS by using the full path
 just like I do the ones on this computer that are not in the folder I
 am logged in to.

 Do I assume that you live in Germany?  I spent 18 months in
 Kaiserslautern in 1962 and 1963.

 I can access files on the other computer in DOS by using the full path


... Ben    
 
... Remember, the paper is always strongest at the perforations.
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