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Trick windows 2k (Shared >LPT)

By Navjun ·
Is there a way to Trick a Windows 2000 Pro PC to think that its printing to LPT while its actually printing to a shared printer on another computer.
I'm asking this since I have an older progrom that only prints to LPT1 and I need it to print to a shared printer on another PC.

thank you for your Help.

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by jschein In reply to Trick windows 2k (Shared ...

Of course... network print...

make a batch file and put this in your startup...

net use lpt1: \\computername\printer

computername being the name of the pc the printer is shared from

printer being the sharename of the printer...

Good luck

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by jschein In reply to

Forgot to mention the printer must be shared for all including guest if you do not have a username and password setup on the printer sharing pc the same as an outside pc to connect to...

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by jschein In reply to

Uhm... when you log off the system... no ports are shared.... <cough>

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by IT Killer In reply to Trick windows 2k (Shared ...

Create a script to run at logon as follow
net use LPT1 \\(PrintServer)\(PrinterName) /Persistent:No

persistent:no is optional,in this case it will release the lpt port when you logoff your system.

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by mbr In reply to Trick windows 2k (Shared ...

if you create a loging script to
net use LPT1 \\(PrintServer)\(PrinterName) /Persistent:No
this should solve your problem for printing.

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