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by eminent87

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Hi,

I'm trying to print a report from ADP payroll software to our network printer but in order to do that I need to capture the network printer to LPT1. The ADP software need to be print in DOS. I could do this fine if I set up the printer locally but I can't figure how to capture it to LPT1 on a network printer. I've also tried using a login script (NET USE LPT: \\SERVER\PRINTER /PERSISTENT:YES)to capture the LPT1 port but that doesn't seem to work either. By the way, I'm using Windows 2000and our print server is running NT 4.0. Can anyone give me any suggestions?

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by bughunter

I have used the following;
On the machine that uses the DOS program I created a .bat file the had the line
net use LPT1 \\MachineName\PrinterShareName.
The printer was a network printer that I connected to a workstation and then shared it. Obviously you could set user or system environment variables to make this redirection at bootup.

by tim_vogt

CHECK ON THE WEB TO SEE IF THERE ANY UPDATE FOR THE PRINTER.DO YOU HAVE THE PAPER WORK THAT CAME WITH IT,IT SHOULD HAVE A WEB SITE OR A PHONE # TO CALL THEM. I WISH I KNEW WHAT PRINTER THAT YOU ARE USEING,I HAD DONE TO ME (CHECK THE SOFTWARE TO IF IT HANDLE THAT TYPE PRINTER. CHECK IT OUT WITH ANOTHER PRINTER TO SEE IF IT WORKS Y /N. THE PRINTER MY BE OUT OF DATE AND NO UPDATES

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