Redirect LPT1 to Network Printer?

[Chris Dove]

We have an old piece of DOS software which has print options to lpt1 or
com1. How can I redirect these to a network printer?

Thanks

Chris

 

[Jim Carney]

NET USE LPT1 /delete /yes
NET USE LPT1 \\Fileservername\1304Laser /Yes


where 1304Laser was the name of the printer.
Fileservernmae is obviously that, use whatever you have.

if you play with that batch file you should be able to get
it to work. we have an old dos app also.

 

[Chris Dove]

Thanks Jim

Will give it a go

Chris

NET USE LPT1 /delete /yes
NET USE LPT1 \\Fileservername\1304Laser /Yes


where 1304Laser was the name of the printer.
Fileservernmae is obviously that, use whatever you have.

if you play with that batch file you should be able to get
it to work. we have an old dos app also.

 

[Guest]

We had this in place and everything work fine, until we upgraded to XP Pro on the workstations now if anyone other then administrators log in on the workstation they get (The password is invalid for \\server\printer) and then prompts you for a login name and password that will not allow you to log in, even if you put in administators name and password

Any one know why a restricted user is not sending the proper information forward in dos but works fine in windows

Thanks in advanc
Nathan

 

[Kevin Longley]

Non-admins cannot redirect lpt1. This can be accomplished by using a utility
called devon.exe that I believe comes with the windows 2000 resource kit. To
alter xp's default behavior you would then run the following locally:

DEVCON DISABLE *PNP0400
DEVCON DISABLE *PNP0401

I don't recall the MS KB for this.

We had this in place and everything work fine, until we upgraded to XP Pro

on the workstations now if anyone other then administrators log in on the
workstation they get (The password is invalid for \\server\printer) and then
prompts you for a login name and password that will not allow you to log in,
even if you put in administators name and password.

Any one know why a restricted user is not sending the proper information

forward in dos but works fine in windows?

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

313644 Non-Administrators Cannot Remap an LPT Port to a Network Printer
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=313644

Thanks Kevin!
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