User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

Using LAN Manager Basic

Using Shared Printers

With LAN Manager Basic, you can use shared printers by connecting your

workstation to a shared printer queue. A printer queue manages print jobs by

collecting the ﬁles that users want to print and sending them to a printer in

the order they’re received. Incoming jobs are held in the queue until the

printer is ready to print them.

When you connect your workstation to a shared printer queue, you send

print jobs to the queue just as you send print jobs to a printer attached to your

workstation.

Connecting to a Shared Printer Queue

You can connect your workstation to a printer queue by assigning the queue

a devicename. Devicenames LPT1 through LPT3 are available for assigning

to printer queues.

To connect your workstation to a printer queue

• Type net use

devicename: \\computername\queue

For example, to assign LPT1 to the PRINT1 printer queue on the

\\FINANCE server, type:

net use lpt1: \\finance\print1

When you use a devicename that is also assigned to a printer at your

workstation, your workstation recognizes only the network connection when

you use the devicename. To get your workstation to recognize the printer

that is attached to your workstation, you must disconnect or pause the

connection to the shared printer queue. For more information about

disconnecting and pausing, see “Net Use” and “Net Pause” in Chapter 7,

“Basic Reference.”