Try this:
1.. On the Start menu (Windows), click Settings > Printers > Add Printer.
2.. Select My Computer and then click Next.
3.. Select one of the LPT ports. Click Next.
4.. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete the Add Printer wizard.
5.. On the Start menu (Windows), click Programs > Command Prompt to go to
a MS-DOS command prompt.
6.. Use the NET USE statement at the MS-DOS command prompt. For the
following example, the LPT3 port was specified and the network printer
resides on the system named "SERVER" with the share name of "PRINTER".
NET USE LPT3 \\SERVER\PRINTER\ /persistent:yes
Note: The "/persistent:yes" switch is used so the system will restore the
NET USE command each time you reboot the system.
HTH
VJoseph
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> Ive got 4 copies of VoloView 3 - as usual 3 of them seem to be working ok,
(after having to completely wipe one computer to correct the problem with
dissapearing mouse cursors when plotting)
>
> However one system is being strange when you go to plot. If the user
opens up say a DWG from an email it opens, he clicks plot, it remembers the
last plotter and its settings and he plots with no errors.
>
> If he however opens up voloview, manually opens a file and then trys to
plot he gets this error...
>
> "\\servername\printer : This plotter configuration cannot be used for one
of these reasons: The driver cannot be found, the device cannot be found,
the driver has a problem. The NONE plot has been substituted."
>
> You click ok, select the device manually and plot as normal and it works
fine.
>
> Any ideas why it is doing this? its highly annoying.