NET USE command in win2k

Homerboy

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for a variety of reasons, I have to assign a network printer to a machine here on LPT3

I type in:

NET USE LPT3 \\HP4SI\pr_lpt2 /persistent:yes
and it returns an error 59 and thats that.

I have many other machine here with the identical setting and those work perfectly fine excpet this one machine. I can not figure it out.

any input?
 

xtknight

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I'm just guessing but are there supposed to be two different LPT port numbers in that command? (you have both lpt2 and lpt3 in there)
 

Homerboy

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same command works on other PCs
the Intel print server has 2 ports on it (2 printers)
 

GeekDrew

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IIRC, Error 59 is unexpected network error, right?

Are you able to browse to \\HP4SI? Any firewalls (hardware or software), routers, etc. - anything at all - sitting between that print server and the computer with the problem?

Can you ping the print server?