Just a short update:
I've retreated in my footsteps all the way back to my lab at work,
and its PXE-booted legacy NetBootDisk profile, and I have to say that
the LPT2 obtained via
net use lpt2: \\printserver\queue
misbehaves *exactly* the same as in my minimized VirtualBox
environment, and as on Bryan's bare metal at home.
At my workplace, it's miscellaneous bare metal x86 hardware on the
client, against a Debian 9 print server with stock Samba of that
distro (and lprng printing service).
Earlier this year, I just did a quick test and made a rushed
conclusion that DOS printing redirection worked fine.
Means to me that I should start from a clean sheet - maybe with
MS-DOS first, installed from scratch, and MS Network Client
installation disks, and see if that makes a difference...
That's gonna take me a while.
I'm also wondering about stuff such as planting a UNIX named pipe in
some directory on the Linux box, that gets served by Samba as a disk
share... or just run a script that would wait for a plain file with a
pre-configured filename, wait for a few seconds after it stops
growing and spool that via lpr or something :-) Ugly workarounds to
make printing via "print to file" in the DOS box more seamless.
Frank
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