Capture LPT port?

Greetings and Aloha,
I have an issue where one of my users prints from a 19th century old database
program called RBASE "something". Anyhow, she prints from this program to
a TCP/IP networked HP4000 printer that is no longer in service, well the
printer died on us the other day. I want to point her to different printer
of the same nature.

SO, my question is, how do I capture a LPT port on local machine so that
the RBASE program can print over the network to this new HP4000.

Thanks

Danny Gallegos
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com

The same way she was doing with the other printer, just change the
computername\printername to match the new printer. Typically:

Net Use LPTx: \\computername\printername /persistent:yes

The connection can be made in the logon script or by a .bat file that
you can store locally in her startup folder, or in the All Users startup
folder.

John


Danny Gallegos wrote:

> Greetings and Aloha,
> I have an issue where one of my users prints from a 19th century old
> database program called RBASE "something". Anyhow, she prints from this
> program to a TCP/IP networked HP4000 printer that is no longer in
> service, well the printer died on us the other day. I want to point her
> to different printer of the same nature.
>
> SO, my question is, how do I capture a LPT port on local machine so that
> the RBASE program can print over the network to this new HP4000.
>
> Thanks
>
> Danny Gallegos
> Roland Schorr & Tower
> http://www.rolandschorr.com
>
>