Printing from MSDOS software to remote printer

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Does anyone know how to print from MSDOS software to a printer on a remote
desktop. My printers are connecting, I can print test pages, but can't
figure out how to tell the software to print to the remote printer since it
only gives a few options for printing e.g. lpt1, lpt2, com1, com2. Any
help would be appreciated. I am a novice at this stuff.
 
Cheri said:
Does anyone know how to print from MSDOS software to a printer on a
remote desktop. My printers are connecting, I can print test
pages, but can't figure out how to tell the software to print to
the remote printer since it only gives a few options for printing
e.g. lpt1, lpt2, com1, com2. Any help would be appreciated. I am
a novice at this stuff.
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If the MSDOS software itself is looking for the printers - other than
printing to some local device (which could mean printing to a file) and then
printing that file to a remote printer - you may be out of luck.
 
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:09:02 -0800, "Cheri R" <Cheri
Does anyone know how to print from MSDOS software to a printer on a remote
desktop. My printers are connecting, I can print test pages, but can't
figure out how to tell the software to print to the remote printer since it
only gives a few options for printing e.g. lpt1, lpt2, com1, com2. Any
help would be appreciated. I am a novice at this stuff.
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You might be able to get MSDOS (really command prompt in XP) to print
to a remotely shared printer that just happens to be on the same
machine as Remote Desktop Client. This *assumes* that your printer is
DOS compatible (not a 'win' printer).
 
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