Re: Getting an LPT4 on XP

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia wrote:



REply to message from Harry Binswanger
 on Mon, 07 Mar

2005 20:26:49 -0500



≪How do I get XP to recognize LPT4 or LPT3? ≫



I'm not sure, because I don't have an XP box to experiment on, so
must

rely on others' say-so, but when Michael Norman and I went round
this

mulberry bush a while back, he cited an expert on another discussion
list

who maintained that XP doesn't allow more than one, or perhaps two,

virtual LPT ports. But why do you need to use LPT 3 or 4? You
surely

don't have two printers hooked up to two parallel ports on your XP
box?

(And if you did, why not print to them?) Even if you have a USB
printer,

it's not using an LPT port. So map your networked printer to LPT 1.
Try

using the command-line NET USE command that Robert cited here a couple
of

times. You'll then have to change the PP table in SETTINGS.DFL, of

course.


The PORT setting on XP can't be changed. NET USE just gives a report.
I'll search the archives later for Robert's posts.



Thanks,

Harry



Harry Binswanger
hb@xxxxxxxx