>To print to a network printer from DOS you have to "capture" the printer port. Win98 allows this directly in the properties,details page of the printer. NT (in its infinite wisdom) does not.
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>It can be had however. You need to issue a net use command within the DOS session. This can be done at a command prompt or in the autoexec.dos (I think that is the name) file. The syntax is:
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>net use lpt1 \\servername\shared_printer_name

Thanks, we made it work yesterday afternoon.