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re: Help with Net Use
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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Posted by Kevin (2497 messages posted)


The command should use a colon, not a pipe (|):

net use lpt1: \\192.168.100.2\HP
or
net use lpt1: \\ComputerName\PrinterShareName






On Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:55 pm, Law wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have this issue with using the Net Use command on one of my Win XP PC to print
>from a DOS application. I need to sought assistance for the my following scenario;
>
>Network printer (with IP) -----> Win XP PC (installed as Windows networked printer)
>
>Firstly, the PC is able print to the network printer from Win XP itself and while
>I experiment with the Net Use command for DOS printing, it seems I am getting no
>where. I constantly received the following errors;
>
>System error 67 - the network name / the network path was not found.
>
>The syntax of my command;
>
>NET USE LPT1| \\192.168.100.2\HP
>
>I wonder what could be wrong with the above?
>
>Thanks - crackie



Written in response to:
Help with Net Use (Law: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 4:55 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Help with Net Use -more information (geek9pm: Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 12:03 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Help with Net Use (Law: Wed, May 23, 2007, 4:55 pm)
-re: Help with Net Use (Kevin: Wed, May 23, 2007, 5:35 pm)
*re: Help with Net Use -more information (geek9pm: Thu, May 24, 2007, 12:03 pm)
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