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FastPort User’s Guide 3-4
3.1.5 Printing From NetBIOS-supported DOS Workstation
NetBIOS workstations support the DOS-level Net commands for locating
and redirecting local ports to shared printers. These DOS-level commands
include
net view
and
net use
.
3.1.5.1 Net View
•
net view
: This command shows all devices within a workgroup
communicating on the network with the same networking protocol as
the client workstation.
•
net view /workgroup:<wgname>
: This command shows all devices
within the workgroup <wgname> communicating with the same
protocol as the workstation.
•
net view \\FP042384
: This command shows all the shared
resources on a Digi print server with hardware address
00:40:c8:04:23:84.
Net view
displays the following:
Shared resources at FP042384
Sharename Type Comment
PARALLEL1 Print parallel-port #1 (ON-LINE)
PARALLEL2 Print parallel-port #2 (OFF-LINE)
SERIAL1 Print serial-port #1 (ON-LINE)
SERIAL2 Print serial-port #2 (ON-LINE)
The command was completed successfully. Print Server Name
FP042384
and share names
PARALLEL1
, are user configurable from the
FastManage or NBMON tool (both described in the chapter 6).
3.1.5.2 Net Use
•
NET USE LPT1: \\FP042384\SERIAL1
—This redirects printing
from the LPT1 port to the serial 1 port on FastPort.
•
NET USE LPT1: /D
—This deletes the redirect (that is, stops the
redirection to FastPort).
Note:
During configuration, a dialog box may appear saying: “The printer that you’ve
connected to doesn’t have a driver for that printer.” This is normal. FastPort does not
know how to format the data for the printer. Formatting is done on the workstation
“before” being sent to FastPort.