Hopefully can somebody help me to get rid of this error (Printer name invalid) in cygwin

[mohsen...@gmail.com]

I don't know if I am at the right place to ask my question.
But any way, I explain my problem.

I use on Win7 the cygwin to use linux in our company.
Here no one knows any thing about Unix or linux and even less about cygwin.

At the old company I could print from cygwin any text file on the common printer,
which was connected to the server.

I had in my .bash_profile the following alias:

alias lpc='lpr -d //forum/HP\ Color\ LaserJet\ 5550 '

The whole stauff after "-d" was the printer name on the server.

But now in the new company they have a printer on the server "//srv-com02",
which is called "PRI-AVOR".

I've tried to use the same alias as before like the following:
alias lpa='lpr -d //srv-com02/PRI-AVOR '
But it bring the error message:

$ lpa bla
lpr: printer error: can't open '\\srv-com02\PRI-AVOR.lnk' for writing: Der Druckername ist unzulässig.

It seems that it wants a link to this printer. But when I type in the string
"//srv-com02/PRI-AVOR" in the windows explorer I'll see the printer and if iI go one directory higher, I'll see all other printers.

What should I set in .bash_profile to get it working.

Best regards
Mohsen