[gui-talk] Brailling across network with WIN BT

[Brian Blair]

I'm trying to figure out a way to send documents to my Juliet Pro 60 
Brailler across a network from a Windows 7 64 bit machine to a Windows 8 
64 computer to which the Juliet is attached.

In the past I have been able to use the command line's Net Use command 
in Win XP and Windows 8 to send output of LPT1 or LPT2 to my shared 
Braille printer
on another computer on the network.

So in my current setup this printer is connected to a Windows 8 64 bit 
machine.  I can print to it from that machine and I can also print to it 
from a
Windows XP machine connected to this network using Net Use to connect 
LPT1 to the network path for this printer.

However, we have a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit machine and I can not 
get this to work from this machine.

In a past setup I had this printer connected to a Windows XP machine and 
successfuly printed to it from a Windows 8 machine using Net Use to
LPTX.  So is there something different about Windows 7 that won't allow 
this?  I am an administrator on this Win 7 machine.  The Net Use command 
completes
with no errors, but anything sent to LPTX fails to print and no error 
message is returned.

I'm using the Win BT, the Windows front end for the NFB Braille Translator.

I was able to print something to the Juliet from this Win 7 machine by 
installing the Brailler from the shared network location and then 
printing to the Juliet through Windows Notepad.  So if there was a way 
to tell Win BT to use this installed printer maybe this would work.  I 
tried inserting the name of the installed printer in the place for the 
port in the Win BT setup but this also didn't work.

Any ideas how I might get this to work? I'm not wanting to spend 
hundreds of dollars on Duxbury right now because all I'm doing is 
sending text files to the NFB translator and it is able to do everything 
I need, but now I just need to get the output to the Juliet across the 
network from this Win 7 machine.

Brian