[Wine] NET USE ?

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 25 14:05:20 CDT 2009


>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to access a remote fiscal printer under Wine.

Does the printer appear in the CUPS listing? 

>I'm wondering if it's possible to use the 'net use' command from Windows (but under wine) to map the remote
>printer or if it's possible to simple mount the remote printer (dunno how as mount.cifs gives no clue about how
>to mount print shares) under 'dosdevices/unc'

No and No.  NET USE is not supported and UNC devices are not supported directly by Wine.

It is not physically possible to access a printer under Linux as a non-root user and Wine should not be run as root for security reasons.

James McKenzie




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