Pausing and Continuing Connections to Resources

In addition to pausing a service, you can pause your workstation's connections to shared directories and printer queues.

When you pause connections, your workstation no longer recognizes the devicenames assigned to the connections. If you assigned a local devicename to a network connection (for example, LPT1), pausing the connection lets you use the devicename for a local resource.

You use the drdr option with the net pause and net continue commands to pause and continue connections to shared directories. You use the prdr option to pause and continue connections to shared printer queues.

To pause and continue connections to shared directories or printer queues

For more information about using these options, see "Net Pause" and "Net Continue" in Chapter 5, "Enhanced Reference."