Net Use solution is NOT supported by Arts Management Systems. | |
Note: this technique only works with NT, 2000, XP pro and Vista. It does not work with:
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Historically, sharing can be done amongst Windows only computers with an LPT port using a feature called NET USE available in some versions of Windows older than Vista. Alternatively, you could print when two computers that are side by side in the box office using an electronic A/B switch (means it automatically switches LPT1 depending on who is printing).
If you opt for the software solution, it works like this:
net use lptx: \\ComputerWithPrinter\PrinterName /Persistent:yes
using the example above, the command would look like
net use lpt2: \\BoxOffce1\TixPrnt1 /Persistent:yes
This will redirect lpt2 on a computer to the machine with the ticket printer. The advantage of this is that is it easily configurable and you can use more than one of these commands on any machine to allow it to point to any ticket printer on the network.
Using the example above
net use lptx: /delete
For more information on how the net use command works use the Windows help/ Go to start >> help. And do a search for "net use"