Emulate of LPT on a network-LAN-printer on Windows XP...

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salvi

Hi

Have a legacy-application, which definitely needs an LPT-printer... in
my environment, I only have a network-LAN-printer available, which is
not recognized. How can I configure / redirect my print jobs "using
LPT1" to my LAN-printer?

Thanks a lot!

Regards, Salvi
 
You would need to redirect the LPTx port to the network device. This is
typically performed with the redirector function net.exe

net use LPT1: \\printserver\printshare

In XP only the admin can perform this when a physical LPT port exists. For
non admin users use LPT2: or LPT3:

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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Hi Alan

That's great, it works!! Thank you very much!

Cheers, Salvi
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Hi Alan

Have a problem with the installation of the LPT1-printer on another PC
(pcB) in the same network. It's only working, if I'm taking the URL (\
\pcA\printshare) of the first PC (pcA) I installed. With the 2nd one (\
\pcB\printshare), I always get issues. For every print, two pending
print jobs appear and none of them is printed... Windows shows errors;
not possible to print...
How can I work around this? How and where do I define the
"printserver"?

Thanks a lot, regards, Stefan
 
Have a problem with the installation of the LPT1-printer on another PC
(pcB) in the same network. It's only working, if I'm taking the URL (\
\pcA\printshare) of the first PC (pcA) I installed. With the 2nd one (\
\pcB\printshare), I always get issues. For every print, two pending
print jobs appear and none of them is printed... Windows shows errors;
not possible to print...
How can I work around this? How and where do I define the
"printserver"?
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If you are using a local network port (e.g. LPR or TCP RAW), it's a lot
easier to use printer pooling instead of printer sharing.
In properties for your network printer, on the Ports-tab, check "Enable
printer pooling" and then check LPT1 in addition to your network port.

/klaus
 
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