map lpt port to an ip address

the network card must support "Lan Man" style printing.

Old Intel Print server Netport 10/100

Epson had one.

If you have a Lexmark or HP nic they have never supported this.

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"Multitech" <Multitech@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> how to map a lpt port to a wireless network printer with a specific IP
> address.
> the printer is not shared so we do not want to map it via a shared name.
> Normally, we would use the following:
> net use lpt2 \\servername\sharename /persistent:yes.
> I would like to do the same but directly to the IP address.
> this whole issue so that we can do remote printing to it via remote
> desktop
> or remote web access.