Mapping Lpt1 to an active directory printer object

[Guest]

Hi

may I firstly apologise for having Dos applications still.

My problem is I have an old Dos application that will only send printed
output to the printer port LPT1.

We set up a departmental printer in Active Dir and gave it a share name, we
assigned full permission to the Departmental printer . We setup a printer
locally on the users machine and left it using port LPT1 .We then port mapped
at login lpt1 to the printer using
Net Use Lpt1: \\Servername\Objectname this was successful.

Our problem arose when the Domain Controller's hard drive failed and we lost
all printers & queue's set up on there. We recreated the printer on the DC
and the DC is able to print to it fine.

The problem now is though LPT1 will not port Map to this new queue, it asks
for a logon to authenticate after the Net Use command, even if we use an
Admin logon in mid script it will not complete the assignment it says "Access
denied". However using the same logon if we use the previously unused LPT2 to
map it works fine. So the permission error is somehow based on LPT1 as LPT2
is no problem , meaning the user has sufficient rights to complete the
connection.

If I logon as domain admin and run the Net Use command on LPT1 it works but
will not work for the user on LPT1.

Has anyone any ideas, it seems as though some LPT1 setting is stored
somewhere and needs clearing out before the next mapping. Just out of
interest I made the user a member of the Domain Admins group and it worked
fine, we have however tried giving him every print permission available and
this makes no difference.

Any help / ideas will be appreciated

Many Thanks in Advance

Paul

 

[Ryan Hanisco]

Paul,

There is a utility called sanur that will let you script the RUNAS utility
so it no longer prompts you for a password. Drop this into the script and
it will map that printer as the Administrator. That should take care of
your problem -- though there is probably a more "official windows" way of
solving the problem.

Sanur can be gotten from: http://www.commandline.co.uk/sanur/