net use help

[pstechnology]

my workgroupname is : 178john
the computer name is: computer1
the device is a printer on lpt1
shared printer name is:hp
I used the commend line but to no avail

net use [lpt1:]\\178john\computer1\printer_share/persistent:yes


any suggestions would be greatly apprecieated.

Thanks in advance
Steve

 

[Dave Patrick]

Try;

net use lpt1 \\computer1\hp /persistent:yes


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