>>At a client site, we have 4 NT Workstations and one Win '98. The Win '98 workstation can print from a DOS Shell on a shared printer on the server. However, all NT Workstations can't print from a DOS Shell. We can't redirect the LPT1 port to print on a shared printer on those workstations.
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>Can you issue a NET USE LPT1 \\server name\printer share name from the NT DOS Shell? If so, what are you doing to send the file to the printer. On my NT Ws box (NT 4.0 build 1381 SP5), the following works:
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>NET USE LPT2 \\Ed3\Epson600
>PRINT /D:LPT2 sampletext.txt
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>I have a printer on LPT1 and it doesn't like my redirecting the port where a device is attached.
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>It doesn't like inheriting the redirection from the NT envrionment, but that's likely how I have the printer set up in NT (I don't tell NT that Iwanted to print from DOS when I installed the printer.)
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>You may need to do a custom AUTOEXEC for the Shell to do the NET USE whenever the shell is started.

Thanks