Setting up Windows 2000 local port

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Lee Shufflebotham

When trying to enable printer sharing using a local port
in a clean install of Windows 2000 professional it is
asking me to insert a 'Windows 2000 Professional (BETA 3)'
CD when trying to create a 'New Local Port'. When I
insert the CD that I installed windows from, original
Microsoft disk, it just keeps on asking for the Beta 3
disk. We have used this method with NT4 in the past with
total success. Have I done something wrong or is there a
work around this without a BETA 3 Disk??

Thanks!
 
When we do a straight install of windows 2000 without
anything else installed. If you try create a local port
it has no problem. If however you have installed service
pack 4 and all relevant updates prior to trying to
install a local port then this option is not available.

This is when it asks for the Windows 2000 Beta 3 Disk.
If you have installed a local port before installing
service pack 4 then this option is still available.

Is there a registry or gpedit.msc fix for this?

The option of re-installing windows 2000 then installing
the local port is at present not an option.

Regards

Lee Shufflebotham
 
Yes,

LPT and COM ports are definately listed. We have reinstalled a couple of
other machines and installed a local port to share via another PC before the
updates were done and worked fine. The machines could access the shared
printer no problem. A little later on we had a hardware problem with the PC
that connects directly to the printer and printing is shared from. We then
tried to move the printer onto another machine and was greeted with the same
messages again when tried to add another local port...

Windows NT Setup
Setup needs to copy some windows NT files. Setup will look for the files in
the location specified below. If you want setup to look in a different
place, type the new location. When the location is correct, click continue.
E:\i386


When we insert out original windows 2000 professional CD that we installed
the system with we get the following message...

Windows NT Setup...

Then

Setup Mesage
Please insert the disk labeled;
Windows 2000 Professional (Beta 3) CD-Rom into E:
OK or Cancel

The OK option does nothing

The cancel message comes up with the following...

This will end file copying. Are you sure you want to Cancel?
Yes or No

If say No it goes back to the Beta 3 message
If select yes it comes back and says it it unable to install the specified
printer port.

We have looked at the registry settings as per the similar problem that
Chris Sanchez had.

Can anybody please advise us how to rectify this as it is now causing us a
lot of inconvenience?

Kind Regards

Lee Shufflebotham


Alan Morris(MSFT) said:
Are LPT and COM ports still listed?
LPT1:
LPT2:
LPT3:
COM1:
COM2:
COM3:
COM4:

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Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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Lee Shufflebotham said:
When we do a straight install of windows 2000 without
anything else installed. If you try create a local port
it has no problem. If however you have installed service
pack 4 and all relevant updates prior to trying to
install a local port then this option is not available.

This is when it asks for the Windows 2000 Beta 3 Disk.
If you have installed a local port before installing
service pack 4 then this option is still available.

Is there a registry or gpedit.msc fix for this?

The option of re-installing windows 2000 then installing
the local port is at present not an option.

Regards

Lee Shufflebotham
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