Printer logon script has partially failed

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Hi
We have a small Server 2000 network that has two networked printers.
These were called by a logon batch file with the following two lines:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /u /in /n \\servername\HPBW2200 /q
/y
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /u /in /n \\servername\HPC4600 /q

Recently the first printer (HPBW2200) has stopped mapping - the second
still loads correctly. I have tried every last thing that I can think
of - nada!

Any ideas?

Graeme

p.s. i have tried the following:
Uninstall and reinstall network printer
Manually run the rundll32 command from the command line - it works
first time
Error logs show nothing
Change printer IP number
 
Hi
We have a small Server 2000 network that has two networked printers.
These were called by a logon batch file with the following two lines:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /u /in /n \\servername\HPBW2200 /q
/y
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /u /in /n \\servername\HPC4600 /q

Recently the first printer (HPBW2200) has stopped mapping - the second
still loads correctly. I have tried every last thing that I can think
of - nada!

Any ideas?

Graeme

p.s. i have tried the following:
Uninstall and reinstall network printer
Manually run the rundll32 command from the command line - it works
first time
Error logs show nothing
Change printer IP number
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I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to map
these printers to virtual network ports (i.e. LPT3)? If so, use:

net use lpt3: \\servername\HPBW2200

If I'm not understanding your request, please be clearer.

I hope that I was able to assist you.
 
Andreware said:
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to map
these printers to virtual network ports (i.e. LPT3)? If so, use:

net use lpt3: \\servername\HPBW2200

If I'm not understanding your request, please be clearer.

I hope that I was able to assist you.
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The batch file above was set under the Windows 2000 Server Group Policy
to run under Computer Configuration > Windows Settings >Scripts
(Startup/Shutdown) > Startup. It is supposed to make the WinXP client
machines pick up the two networked printers and set one as the default.

It no longer works for one of the printers - I am seeking suggestions
as to why this may have happened

Graeme
 
The batch file above was set under the Windows 2000 Server Group Policy
to run under Computer Configuration > Windows Settings >Scripts
(Startup/Shutdown) > Startup. It is supposed to make the WinXP client
machines pick up the two networked printers and set one as the default.

It no longer works for one of the printers - I am seeking suggestions
as to why this may have happened

Graeme
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I'm not sure why that would happen. Do the clients still have
read/write access to it? If you type \\servername\HPBW2200 into the
Start->Run box, does it come up anything?

I was saying that I have never used RunDLL32 to connect to a shared
printer. My startup script looks something like this:

@echo off
net use n: \\namerica1\outlook
copy n:\mapi32.dll c:\windows\system
net use n: /delete
net use lpt3: \\keyt\hp

After some research, I found that you should probably take off /q (quiet
mode) so that we can see the errors that may be coming up. Plus, it
seems you have two /y's on one line.

I await your reply.
 
Andreware said:
I'm not sure why that would happen. Do the clients still have
read/write access to it? If you type \\servername\HPBW2200 into the
Start->Run box, does it come up anything?

I was saying that I have never used RunDLL32 to connect to a shared
printer. My startup script looks something like this:

@echo off
net use n: \\namerica1\outlook
copy n:\mapi32.dll c:\windows\system
net use n: /delete
net use lpt3: \\keyt\hp

After some research, I found that you should probably take off /q (quiet
mode) so that we can see the errors that may be coming up. Plus, it
seems you have two /y's on one line.

I await your reply.
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Hi

Thanks for the /y pointer - that was one of the problems (the second /y
on the same line seems to throw the client PCs off the scent).
Rewriting the batch file as shown helped:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\servername\HPBW2200 /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\servername\HPC4600 /q
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n \\servername\HPBW2200 /q

This still did not work - I then used Group Policy to apply the batch
file as a user logon script which works fine - I still have no idea as
to why it failed as a computer logon script.

GT
 
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