Re: Answer Found Re: How get Xy to use network printer

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia Godfrey wrote

Paul Lagasse wrote:

This is an alternative to using
NET USE to set up a printer for DOS; NET USE has never worked for me.
Clearly something is wrong there, but tracking down solutions to
"system error 66" has found a number of solutions that don't
solve my problem.


I rather think, from what Ed Mendelson said, that that error means an
overzealous firewall or other security setting.


Perhaps. However, if I turn my firewall off, I get the same error message
as always. What other security setting it might be I don't know (and
don't know if that makes sense if another networked computer can find and
print to the printer). BTW, the full error report is


"System error 66 has occurred.

The network resource type is not correct."


To review: to use
the NET USE command to print to a USB printer from Xy (or a DOS prompt or
another DOS app):

1. You have to be running Win 2K or XP; doesn't work in 9x.

2. The computer has to have a NIC in it, and a Cat5 cable has to be
plugged into the RJ45 port, and the other end plugged into a powered hub
or switch (though apparently not in Vista). You don't, apparently, have
to actually have any other real PCs in the network. Certainly they don't
have to be turned on.

3. The printer has to be declared shared in Settings->Printers. I
suggest using a short share name (no spaces, under 8 letters), though
that's probably not necessary. Likewise for the Computer Name.

4. The printer must be able to read and interpret the data stream it is
sent. That is, it must be compatible with the DOS driver you're using.
That pretty much limits us to HP or Postscript, since Epson changed its
specs and current Epsons no longer use ESC/P.


1. I've only ever tried NET USE in XP; indeed reading an XP handbook is
how I first learned of it. My joy that day was brief.

2. Got network card, have Cat5 or better (I think most of my network
cable is CAT5e, some CAT5 and CAT6), have router attached to the
computer, have a network of PCs.

3. Printer is declared shared. It can be seen and used by other computers
on the network. Interestingly, "net view \\office," issued from
the same computer that can't make a go of "net use," shows the
(now two) printers:


":\Documents and Settings\Paul>net view \\office

Shared resources at \\office


Share name  Type   Used as  Comment


--------------------------------------------------

CLP-510     Print  CLP-510

CLP-510a    Print  CLP-510a

SharedDocs  Disk

The command completed with one or more errors."


The last line is interesting, but I don't know how to find out what the
errors are, or if they matter.


4. The printer, when pooled with the pretender CLP-510a on LPT1, can, as
I mentioned, print from DOS. And since I now have CLP-510a on LPT1, I
have tried LPT2 and LPT3 with net use instead, just to see, and have had
the same wonderful luck.


At this point though, thanks to the workaround, I'm not so worried about
the NET USE issue. And in any case, I have other workarounds that I've
used to print (prior to creating CLP-510a) when I've needed to print
something from Xy4.


Life goes on.


-pl





Paul Lagasse

PO Box 144

Kemblesville, PA 19347

pglagasse@xxxxxxxx


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