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Printing from DOS Program Running in WIN NT 4.0 Server
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05/08/1998 10:57:17
Jocylyn Sy
Freelance Programmer
Cebu, Philippines
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Windows
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Printing
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00122187
Message ID:
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>Good day,
>
>Sorry for the late reply,
>
>>You have several solutions available, depending on the operating system you're >using.
>> You can capture the printer port within Win95 and WinNT and send it to a >remote
>> print device (Control Panel/Printers/Add New Printer dialog, followed by >making
>> whatever adjustments you want to the printer properties sheet), and there's >always the
>> NET...USE command under DOS with the DOS client (or 95, 98 or NT as well.)
>
>> NET USE LPT1 \\SomeMachine\SharedLaser /YES
>
>> makes the printer shared by SomeMachine as SharedLaser available as LPT1: on >your
>> system. The /YES does not prompt you for input before performing the >assignment.
>> /DELETE drops the connection. Try NET USE /? | MORE for details.
>
>Just to give more details..
>
>The computer we are having printing problems with is the Windows NT
>Server Computer. We are trying to print a Clipper DOS program
>output to a printer attached to our Novell 3.12 server using the
>queue \\Belmont\BelmontQ.
>
>In the Properties option of the printer, I specified that the
>LPT1 port is to be used shared name as Shared_Epson.
>
>Issuing a NET SHARE at a DOS window gives this result:
>
>Shared_Epson LPT1: Spooled \\Belmont\BelmontQ
>
>Whenever I issued a DIR >PRN command. I can see the Print Manager
>showing that Windows NT captured the output and is waiting to print
>out the document. After a few seconds however, this error comes out:
>
>Error Writing to LPT1..Device Not Ready.
>
>Thank you

NT Server 4.0? Try going to Start > Settings > Printers. Right-click in the printers window and click on Caputure Port. Capture the port to your NetWare print queue. HTH, CH.
Chuck Henry
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