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using net use command to map lpt1 to a network printer

Posted: 12-30-2003, 02:46 PM
James
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Here is what I got. I shared a network printer that I have setup on a pc. We
will call it wrkstn1 and the printer is \\wrkstn1\printer. I can login as a
network admin to wrkstn1 and type "net use lpt1 \\wrkstn1\printer" and then
print out of my old dos app to lpt1 and it prints fine.

The problem comes when I have the user login and try to run the net use
command. The use is in the "Power users" group but not the admin group. When
she logs in and runs the command it asks her for a username and password to
access the device.

I have this setup in a little bit of a different way on a 2000 workstation
for another user. The difference is the printer that the user is connecting
to is not on her pc it is shared on a different pc.

Any help would be great...


Thanks


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Re: using net use command to map lpt1 to a network printer
Posted: 12-31-2003, 05:48 PM
I wanted to let everyone know why I was having this problem.

Non-Administrators cannot map lpt ports to a device if the physical lpt port
already exists on the computer when using windows xp. This is why it would
not allow me to map lpt1 to device since I already had a physical lpt1 and
the user was not an administrator.

Thanks,


"James" <acidflea@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Here is what I got. I shared a network printer that I have setup on a pc.
We
> will call it wrkstn1 and the printer is \\wrkstn1\printer. I can login as
a
> network admin to wrkstn1 and type "net use lpt1 \\wrkstn1\printer" and
then
> print out of my old dos app to lpt1 and it prints fine.
>
> The problem comes when I have the user login and try to run the net use
> command. The use is in the "Power users" group but not the admin group.
When
> she logs in and runs the command it asks her for a username and password
to
> access the device.
>
> I have this setup in a little bit of a different way on a 2000 workstation
> for another user. The difference is the printer that the user is
connecting
> to is not on her pc it is shared on a different pc.
>
> Any help would be great...
>
>
> Thanks
>
>

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