Digi MIL-3000FTX manual Printing From NetBIOS-supported DOS Workstation, Net View, Net Use

7.Choose a local name to call this printer.

8.When prompted, choose to print a test page. A test page is printed out on the FastPort-connected printer.

The Windows system is now configured to print to FastPort.

3.1.5 Printing From NetBIOS-supported DOS Workstation

NetBIOS workstations support the DOS-level Net commands for locating and redirecting local ports to shared printers. These DOS-level commands include net view and net use.

3.1.5.1Net View

•net view: This command shows all devices within a workgroup communicating on the network with the same networking protocol as the client workstation.

•net view /workgroup:<wgname>: This command shows all devices within the workgroup <wgname> communicating with the same protocol as the workstation.

•net view \\FP042384: This command shows all the shared resources on a Digi print server with hardware address 00:40:c8:04:23:84. Net view displays the following:

Shared resources at FP042384

Sharename	Type	Comment
PARALLEL1	Print	parallel-port #1 (ON-LINE)
PARALLEL2	Print	parallel-port #2 (OFF-LINE)
SERIAL1	Print	serial-port #1 (ON-LINE)
SERIAL2	Print	serial-port #2 (ON-LINE)

The command was completed successfully. Print Server Name FP042384 and share names PARALLEL1, are user configurable from the FastManage or NBMON tool (both described in the chapter 6).

3.1.5.2Net Use

•NET USE LPT1: \\FP042384\SERIAL1—This redirects printing from the LPT1 port to the serial 1 port on FastPort.

•NET USE LPT1: /D—This deletes the redirect (that is, stops the redirection to FastPort).

MIL-3000FTX Series of FastPort Print Servers 3-4