DOS Printing: System Error 66

So far the information you gave is not sufficient to even define your exact
problem, let alone try to find a solution. System Error 66 has several
possible causes, many related to network printing.
Since you did not give the conditions that exist when the error occurred,
all I can suggest is that you do is search the MSKB using Vista and system
error 66. At least half a dozen references were visible when I recently did
so. I should also mention that the search engine or the web site seemed to
be acting up a bit.

What printer make & model?
Which Vista version?
What are you doing when the error occurs?
Is there any reason why you are using "DOS" ? (Obsolete Application, etc)

"fishman@panix.com" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
news:30961bfb18d2e081d36856048db739dd@nntp-gateway.com...
>
> Has anyone EVER solved this problem? It is many months and a Vista
> Service Pack later and this still seems to fail for me. This is a REAL
> pain for me Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Harvey
>
>
> --
> fishman@panix.com

This is Vista32 Ultimate. Since I am trying to virtualize the printer so
that I can access it from a program written in C some twenty years ago
but still very useful, the details of the printer are not material to
the problem. But for the moment it is a Hewlett-Packard LJ2430 connected
via an Ethernet port. As to why DOS, I MUCH prefer working in a command
line environment rather than a GUI. I have been running programs in a
DOS emulator since I switched to Windows NT from OS/2. This has always
functioned in previous versions of Windows (NT4, 2000, and Xp) but
falls flat in Vista. The actual command line that I am trying is

net use lpt3: \\boink\lj2430

where BOINK is the actual machine name and lj2430 is the share name
assigned in the printer driver setup. This for the PCL6 personality of
the printer. I also have drivers installed for the PCL5 and PostScript
personalities, but they are not shared.

net view \\boink

shows lj2430 as a valid asset.

Now is that enough information about what I am trying to do and why? It
is extremely frustrating to not be able to access the printer from these
programs. Why am I getting System Error 66? And I do not seem to be
alone in this; Googling gives me lots of hits on people having the
problem, but seemingly none on solutions. Thanks for any help.

Harvey


Chuck;700770 Wrote:
> So far the information you gave is not sufficient to even define your
> exact
> problem, let alone try to find a solution. System Error 66 has several
> possible causes, many related to network printing.
> Since you did not give the conditions that exist when the error
> occurred,
> all I can suggest is that you do is search the MSKB using Vista and
> system
> error 66. At least half a dozen references were visible when I recently
> did
> so. I should also mention that the search engine or the web site seemed
> to
> be acting up a bit.
>
> What printer make & model?
> Which Vista version?
> What are you doing when the error occurs?
> Is there any reason why you are using "DOS" ? (Obsolete Application,
> etc)
>
> "fishman@xxxxxx" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
> news:30961bfb18d2e081d36856048db739dd@xxxxxx-gateway.com...> > >
> > >
> > > Has anyone EVER solved this problem? It is many months and a Vista
> > > Service Pack later and this still seems to fail for me. This is a
> > REAL
> > > pain for me Thanks for any pointers.
> > >
> > > Harvey
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > fishman@xxxxxx > >


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fishman@panix.com

I was getting the same error when I was trying to install a new network
printer using a Vista machine. Ultimately what I had to do was plug in
the printer to the network, go to the server, install the driver, then
using the IP address of the printer, install the printer. Once that was
installed, I shared the printer, then I went back to the Vista machine,
used the *net use lpt1 /delete *command. Then I installed the printer
to the local machine, and then went in and used the net use lpt1
\\location\printername.

Also, when I tried to do the run as administrator from Vista, I typed
in net use to see my stats and it told me everything was unavailable.
So I just went in normally and it worked perfectly.

Hope this helps.

KR


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