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by anoopkck

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I do have a win200 professional PC and I would like to make printouts using DOS "edit" appln.,
over the network.What can I do??PLs help....

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

If you mean that from the command prompt, you type

edit filename.ext

and then select "print" from the menu, then that should work. You need to have a default printer set up, though.

Is that what you mean?

Cheers,
Tim.

by rdunn

You need to "capture" the printer port.

From the command prompt on your 2k box, type in the following:

(where "server" is your print server and "printer" is the queue that your printer is set up as on the server)

net use lpt1: \\server\printer /persistent:yes

This will tell Windows 2000 to print to lpt1 using the network printer queue. The "persistent:yes" switch tells Win2k to re-attach to the captured port every time you log in as that user.

Hope this helps you!

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