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Cannot print from DOS

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by dmcelyea

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Running Windows NT 4.0, SP5, upgraded to SP6 to see if it would fix the problem. When in a DOS window none of the print commands work.
Copy con, print etc. Printer works fine in Windows.

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by syscokid

You should share out your printer, then add a line like this to your login script:

NET USE lpt1 \\%computername%\share_name

by dmcelyea

I have another computer with the same configuration and the DOS print commmand works fine without sharing out the printer. I tried this previously on the machine in question and it took an extremely long time to print the txt file.
I need to fix this without creating a share on the printer.

Thanks anyway

Don

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