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Network Printing with a twist

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2canSAM

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Just installed a Network printer (Lexmark t644) with an extra 5 Bin output mailbox, and 3 extra 500 Sheet paper trays. Tray one is plain paper white, tray two is plain paper goldenrod, other trays unused as of yet. We run an Warehouse Management system that will only print to LPT ports. There is one report that is printed each month that need 1 copy in white and 1 copy in goldenrod. Also there are 3 users that need to output to thier own mail bins. I have set up 3 different printers on the windows workstations each one pointing to the network printer via the IP address of the printer. Each configuration is shared from the workstation using a different share name. I have mapped over LPT2, LPT3 and LPT4 to each of the shares however it does not work. I was under the impression that when I print to an LPT port via net use it just dumps the data to the port and whatever is configured on the other end of the share was what defined how things printed. Right now I have this

On the workstation I have

T644 Config 1 shared as Config1 and setup to pull white paper from tray 1 and output to bin 2
T644 Config 2 shared as Config2 and setup to pull white paper from tray 1 and output to bin 1
T644 Config 3 shared as Config3 and setup to pull goldenrod paper from tray 2 and output to bin 1

Net Use on the workstation

NET USE LPT2 \\WORKSTATION\CONFIG1
NET USE LPT3 \\WORKSTATION\CONFIG2
NET USE LPT4 \\WORKSTATION\CONFIG3

Now printing from windows works great but printing from the dos based WMW or doing a DIR > LPT2, LPT3, LPT4 will only pull from White from Tray1 and output to bin 1. I am at loss here as why this won't work. Any ideas?

 
Hi,

Does this DOS based managment system run from the same Windows PC's? (just a shortcut on the desktop or something?)

In the config for the printer on the Windows machines....there should be a selection asking you about printing from DOS programs (when you run the Add printer wizard) did you check that?
 
ahhh, great points. The program itself runs from the server but looks to the workstation for printing configuration. I did not see an option for printing to dos. I did add the Windows 9x drivers under additional drivers for the shared printer options. I will have to try to config the shares from the server and see how that works. Thanks
 
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