Exact Windows Printer Syntax?

[CDAY]

Fairlight wrote:

>What is the -exact- method for defining a Windows native filePro printer?
>
>A friend of mine has been advised to use the following:
>
>net use LPT1: \\servername\sharename /persistent:yes
>
>Apparently the result is that the network resource is not correct.  Their
>verbiage, not mine.
>
>Their setup is a bit odd, but I'd think it would work:
>
>"I have a parallel printer, hooked up to a targus port uit which hooks up
>USB and and has par / serial etc on the hardware."
>
>Need any NET command syntax to use, as well as the actual literal
>definition (or appropriate substitutable syntax with definition of what's
>being substituted [ie., share name vs printer "called name"]) for the
>filePro definition, please.
>
>Thanks!
>
>mark->
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Mark,

message of 4:33 just came to me at  6:45?

If they are using XP Pro  all they need is 

win:\\computernamewhereprinterattached\printerinstalledname

sometimes it will work without the win:

Charles Day