[Cialug] OT: Printing to a network printer

[Nathan C. Smith]

You should be able to use the ip address of the printer.  If you already have it might be an issue with the queue name on the printer...  I'm guessing.

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org <cialug-bounces at cialug.org>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wed Jul 29 19:11:07 2009
Subject: Re: [Cialug] OT: Printing to a network printer

Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Morris Dovey<mrdovey at iedu.com> wrote:
>> ...but can't figure out how to send print data to it from my application
>> running in a DOS window under XP. I can send the data to the screen or to a
>> file, but haven't a clue how to get it to the printer.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314499

Hmm. My "Printer Test Page" tells me that the share name is "LexmarkC", 
but how can I correctly identify the print server?

I'm trying to do

    net use lpt1 \\<printserver>\LexmarkC /persistent:yes

and getting a response

    System error 66 has occurred.
    The network resource type is not correct.

for every value of <printserver> I've tried.

-- 
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/