Dos Printing

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Hi all,

Since migration to xp I have a user who has a problem..

He has a dos application which prints to lpt1, he can't change it. He only
has access to network printers and doesn't have admin rights.

I have looked on the microsoft website
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313644/) and found out that this isn't
possible as the user, but one of the resoloutions is that I can go in as
admin and map it. the only problem is that is doesn't hold when the user
logs back on..

Has anyone got any ideas if there is a work around for this. Or any other
suggestions to resolve this for him.

Thanks.

Christine
 
You could run this command:

net use lpt1: \\SomeServer\SomeSharedPrinter

"christine@csc_chelmsford"
 
Sorry, I'm not great at explaining myself. The net use won't work on lpt1 as
he doesn't have rights.
 
AFAIK you do not need any elevated rights for LPT1.
However, you do need appropriate rights for the printer
share. What prevents you from granting such rights?


"christine@csc_chelmsford"
 
I read the Microsoft article she referred to that speaks of the isssues, and
the workarounds, and it appears a regular user when logging in does not have
the correct rights to do the remapping as suggested.
..
I'm following this discussion as I got several legacy DOS applications.
There appears to be some utilities out there that remaps to network printers
and USB's, but whether administative rights are needed to do so is another
issue. For instance:

http://www.printfil.com/adveng.htm

http://www.dos2usb.com/?gclid=CP_T86C_m4YCFQ5aFQodLXYkHg

Our workaround is we got printers hooked up to LPT1, as printers are cheap
enough, and in our small office, everyone got administrative rights. Not the
right way of course.

I'm curious as to the correct solution.
 
FrankChin said:
Our workaround is we got printers hooked up to LPT1, as printers are cheap
enough, and in our small office, everyone got administrative rights. Not the
right way of course.

I'm curious as to the correct solution.
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Concur about installing local printers on LPT1, especially
with prices being so low and there is an abundance of older
parallel laser printers becoming surplus. Years ago, we did
an analysis and felt that use of network printers would be a
far greater inconvenience to our multi-varied users who are
on different platforms, OS's, etc., with different needs.
 
christine@csc_chelmsford said:
Hi all,

Since migration to xp I have a user who has a problem..

He has a dos application which prints to lpt1, he can't change it. He
only has access to network printers and doesn't have admin rights.

I have looked on the microsoft website
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313644/) and found out that this
isn't possible as the user, but one of the resoloutions is that I can
go in as admin and map it. the only problem is that is doesn't hold
when the user logs back on..

Has anyone got any ideas if there is a work around for this. Or any
other suggestions to resolve this for him.

Thanks.

Christine
Click to expand...

One solution is RPV (Remote Program Viewer), a program that sits in the
background polling a particular disk location for the presence of a file (a
print-image created by the legacy program).

Oops, never mind. You said the user can't modify the destination (lpt1).
 
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