somewan Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 I just replaced a 10+ years old NEC laser printer becauseit supported only PostScript level 1 and was horribly slowby today's standards.The replacement is a Samsung CLP-550N colour laser with1200 dpi resolution, PS level 3, 10/100 Mbps Ethernet andas a bonus that wasn't on my list of requirements, namelya built-in duplex printing support.I just printed 11 pages of a PDF document faster than theold printer could choke on a single page!However, it remains to be resolved how to print from DOSboxes. The old printer was attached with a parallel cableto a Linux machine running Samba, and shared as\\COMPUTER\NEC - the Win98 printer config dialogshave a "Capture Printer Port" option that may be usedto associate a DOS "LPTx" device name with a networkpath such as the one mentioned above.However, the new printer is attached using Samsung'ssoftware to a "Samsung network printer port" - nonetwork path is reported - but it ought not to matter,as all Windows needs to do is to maintain the virtualLPT-port and merely forward the data to printerwithout further processing - just as it would do if itdid have a MS-style \\ network path...Does anyone have any clues about this matter?Of course I could attach it to a computer with aparallel cable and share it, but that would defeatthe purpose of having a network printer in thefirst place - namely to avoid the need for amachine to serve as a print server.(The printer listens on the Unix LPD port (515),and supports the protocol, so making it workwith Linux/BSD should at least be easy...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Can you share the printer?If so, map LPT1 to the share from command prompt (net use lpt1 \\computername\sharename). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewan Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Can you share the printer?If so, map LPT1 to the share from command prompt (net use lpt1 \\computername\sharename).That's a clever idea, but not too clever for Win98.I wonder if the other versions are as alert.C:\WINDOWS>net use lpt2 \\c400\clp550nError 2106: This operation cannot be performed to your own computer;it can be performed only on a server. For more information, contactyour network administrator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolt Posted December 16, 2005 Share Posted December 16, 2005 Dumb question: Did you enable "File and Print Sharing" and checked "I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s)"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewan Posted December 19, 2005 Author Share Posted December 19, 2005 Dumb question: Did you enable "File and Print Sharing" and checked "I want to be able to allow others to print to my printer(s)"?Yeah, and sharing the printer worked fine - connecting to itfrom the local computer did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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