Joseph,
Something just occurred to me, and I looked back at your original
post: this was from a government-issued computer? Then maybe the
sysadmin had set things up to foil any attempt to access a printer
through the network. There's an article in the latest issue of
Processor with the headline, "My Printer was hacked?" warning that
printers, scanners, etc. can leave open ports though which a network
can be entered and compromised. Then an article in PC World mentioned
not being able to print from a corporate laptop to one's own home
networked printer. So evidently there are ways of doing this. I'm a
tad surprised though, that net use doesn't do an end run around them.
It certainly does around the W2K "Administrative shares" gobbledegook.
Anyone who has ever had to cope with Corporate Sysadmins know anything
about this? (For good or ill, I've always been my own sysadmin.)
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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx