Exact Windows Printer Syntax?

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Sun, 4 Jun 2006 16:33:03 -0400):

> What is the -exact- method for defining a Windows native filePro
> printer?

WIN:printername

where "printername" is the name as Windows knows it.

Note that the upcoming 5.6.02 update has added an F6 option to pmaint,
to list the available printers known to Windows.

> 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.

On the "net use" command, or on some subsequent filePro operation?

In any case, there is no need to use "net use" for filePro, as you
can simply use "\\servername\sharename" as the destination.  (Or,
"win:\\servername\sharename", if that's the exact name by which
Windows knows the printer.)

> 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,

Unless Windows itself needs a NET command to access it (in which
case, this is a Windows issue, not a filePro one), then filePro
doesn't need one, either.

> 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.

"win:printername"

For example, "win:\\prtserver\Brother HL-5150D series".

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