/persistent:yes usb to lpt1 mapping in windows 7

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/26/2011 1:57 AM, Lonnie Toot wrote:
>
> No it is a usb printer,

That may be so, but it's irrelevant.  It's on a network share, and that's 
all that really matters here.  How it's physically attached to the print 
server doesn't matter.

> I'm not saying that I'm doing it right but it is the only way that i
> was taught how to do it. I will not be at work until Monday, but I'm
> willing to give your idea a try. Forgive me, but I'm not very
> experienced with dos at all. Though I'm over 40 I didn't get in to
> computers until windows ME. Do I run this command once from the
> command prompt or is this inserted in to a batch file, and should I
> assume that I don't need the "/persistent:yes" with the commands that
> you suggested? I've thought about buying an old dos book , but wasn't
> sure that this would get me to where i needed to be. As an example of
> my lack of knowledge as i stated earlier, I'm not sure where to insert
> the commands that you gave me to try batch, filePro somewhere, or at
> the command prompt.
[...]

Don't bother with old DOS books, since you're using Windows, not DOS.

I did the command you said you were using:

     net use lpt1: \\server\printer /persistent:yes

from a non-administrator command prompt, and it was still there after I 
rebooted this morning.  (I didn't try it from an administrator prompt. 
Perhaps that's your problem?)

But, if you simply tell filePro to print to "\\server\printer", or better 
still, "win:\\server\printer", then there is no need for the "net use" 
command in the first place.

-- 
Kenneth Brody