Re: DOS printing on a network

["Casey Boone" <ophidian@mychoice.net>]

capture the print queue to a printer port

go into the properties for the printer, go to the details tab, capture
printer port button (or is it just capture port?)

capture that print queue to lpt2

as long as your running the dos app under windows and it doesnt do anything
funky as far as printing is concerned, then it will print fine this way.

Casey



-----Original Message-----
From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org [mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org]On
Behalf Of David Leathers
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:21 PM
To: SILUG
Subject: DOS printing on a network


This is off the linux subject but I'll try anyway.  I looked at a friends
computer net work win98 on top of Novell.  he has a dos program that is set
to print to lpt1.  the computer that this program runs on has no local
printer attached to it.  In windows their is a printer at \\hp5si\hp.  he
says they have been able to print from the dos program to \\hp5si\hp in the
past.  I just can't see how this can be done.

In the dos program setup for the printer their are only the option to print
to lpt1 lpt2 lpt3 and a file.  Of course lpt1 can not work as there is no
printer their.  I tried using the print to file and typing in \\hp5si\hp but
that did not work.  My view is that you can not take output from a dos
program and send it to a network printer.  Am I wrong on this or is their
some way to do it?  How could you tell dos where the printer is located?

Thanks


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