Error 5 Access Denied on COM1

[Guest]

I'm getting error 5 access denied when I use any program to talk to devices attached to serial a port. There must be a local security policy that I don't have set? I'm using win2k professional
Thanks.

 

[Dave]

any program? which ones, new windows programs or old dos programs?? have
you tried hyperterminal, does it work??

I'm getting error 5 access denied when I use any program to talk to

devices attached to serial a port. There must be a local security policy
that I don't have set? I'm using win2k professional.

 

[Guest]

I used MTTTY (microsoft's multi-threaded terminal program - win32 program) and my proprietary program (which works fine on about 100 other computers running XP & 2000). Unfortunately, I'm supporting someone remote, so I don't have at will access to the offending computer. Any thoughts?

 

[Dave]

an exact copy of the error message generated would help, and also the title
bar of the window reporting it which should tell you what is generating it.

I used MTTTY (microsoft's multi-threaded terminal program - win32 program)

and my proprietary program (which works fine on about 100 other computers
running XP & 2000). Unfortunately, I'm supporting someone remote, so I don't
have at will access to the offending computer. Any thoughts?