DOS printing from Win7

[darren2008]

Hi,

 

We have had an admin XPP machine replaced by a Win7 Pro machine. The XPP machine had a DOS program printing to LPT1 when I tried the following on the Win7 machine:-

 

net use LPT1: \\win7pc\printershare /persistent:yes

 

the command completes but the DOS program doesn't print to the local printer attached to USB001.

 

I've had a look at the config on the XPP machine and within the ports tab of printer properties, both LPT1 & USB ports are ticked which I didn't think was possible.

 

Things yet to try:-

1) Look in BIOS for LPT settings.

2) Issue the NET USE command using elevated permissions.

 

Any advice gratefully received

Darren

[SYNACK]

There was a trick that used to work in XP and Vista that may work but I can't quite remember it. I think it was deleting LPT1 in device manager then setting up a local printer pointing to LPT1 and running that map command. This meant that it found its way indirectly.

 

Dos programs suck.

[darren2008]

DOS programs do suck. If it's a simple program I may rewrite it in VB but getting the printing working buys me some time. Thanks

[Arthur]

Have you considered using DosBox or WinPrint?

[Michael]

Two things I can think of:

 

DOS doesn't like spaces in printer share names

 

Have you tried XP Mode in Windows 7 Pro, Ultimate or Enterprise?