Ehm, can you please clarify the question? Do you mean a timeout for a network printer port? Or just how to capture a network printer to use it from DOS apps?
I have three system (2 win98/1 win2k) I have a HP1150 connected to one of the win98 PC and shared it with the others. All windows applications print fine.
I attatched a "net use" command to the batch file that opens the DOs application. When a the two remote pcs print through dos, they have to escape out to windows before the job will print.
My question: is there anyway to assign a default timeout setting using "net use"? or any other way around having to escape out of DOS to print?
Are you using the Novell Client for Netware or the Microsoft Client for Netware?
The technique traditionally used to accomplish your goal is to specify AUTOENDCAP. It's been a while since I messed with Netware. Let me know if you need more help and I'll look it up.
Well - using the persistent:yes worked on the w2k pc, but not on the w98 pc. So,thank you Wayfare. Roger - I am using client32 (The Novell Client) So - how and where do I use the ENDCAP command. Thank you many times over to both of you. Lisa
This article points out the differences between WIN9x and WINNT for your purposes. Also, the last paragraph tells how to access TIMEOUT and AUTOENDCAP in client32.
Hi Lisa, in Win98 you could create e new shared printer at window level; thane you could connect queue to lpt2 port and enable print from dos. In this way, printer control is under windows instead dos emulation. If you haven't driver you can use generic/text printer. I used this techique in past and worked fine!
