Mapping LPT1

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Jeff MeCeny

Quick question, we have a small network, w2k DC and XP pro workstations, I
need to use the net use command to map LPT1 to the network, the problem that
unless I make thge user a member of the local administrators group they dont
have permissions to map, how do I change that, is it a Local policy or GPO?

thanks
 
It took me 5 hours to find this out. I can't remember the link but what you
have to do is go into Device Manager and disable LPT1: After you do this it
will work fine. Let me know how you make out

Paul
 
Interesting, I will give it a try, I was actually in Device Manager to find
out whether I can assign permissions to this device.


Thanks
 
Jeff,

Here was the thread

Dean,

Check this out

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/67/lev3/70/pid/779/qid/510555


Dean Wells said:
Which machine's local group, the server hosting the printer or the
client?

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Paul Banco said:
Dean,

Very odd, If I add the users to the admin group on the local machine it
works no problem.

paul
Dean Wells said:
If possible, I would try deleting one of the old, now migrated NT4
accounts ... then logon as that user to the AD domain and see if we
experience a different behavior.

Unlikely to be a rights issue ... but possible, I've simply not heard of
it.

Dean

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The AD domain holds it? Yes there still is a trust, But what I did
notice is
that it is working on all windows 2000 machines and not windows XP
machines.
Could there be a rights issue on the XP machine, perhaps they need a
certain
right to map a lpt port?

Thoughts
Paul

First, which domain is the server in that holds the printer and does
a
trust still exist between the 2000 domain and the NT4 domain?

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Dean,

We are migration over to AD. We have trust and the exchange sites
are
joined. So essentially we have disabled accounts in the AD domain
that
are
populated from the NT domain. We disabled the accounts in NT and
then
enabled the accounts in AD.

We are trying to map lpt ports using net use lpt1:
\\server\printershare
for some users this is working, It seems like the users we
manually
create
in AD are working, the ones from the NT domain that get
automatically
created in AD are not. Looks like the SID is messed up but it does
not
make
sense because their accounts are disabled on the NT 4.0 domain.

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks
Paul


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Need much more detail -

* Is it a domain member
* Where and how is the printer connected
* What OSs are involved
* Is there a consistency to when it does work vs. when it does
not
* Provide your exact syntax

Dean

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Having a problem mapping LPT ports. for some users I am
successfully
able to
map these ports. All the users are able to connect to the
printers
through
windows connections but when I try to map lpt port it prompts
for
user
name
and password. I tried explicitly giving rights to the printer
by
user
name
and still no good. It does not even map the ports for the
domain
administrator. Anyone have any ideas.

Thanks
Paul
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