Strange behavior of shared dot matrix printer...

[Bobby C.]

I have a customer who just recently upgraded from Windows 98 to Windows
2000. They have one machine that has a connected dot matrix printer. This
printer is used to print labels for a critical MS-DOS app only. One of the
other machines needs to connect to this shared printer via LPT3. When I
went in and established the sharing for the printer on the machine with the
attached printer the port it is using is LPT1. When I go to the other
machine and add a new printer, select the printer on the other machine and
then set it to local port LPT3 it changes it for both machines. Is this
normal behavior? Has anyone had any experience successfully hooking up a
shared dot matrix printer. This is a real puzzler for me. Any help would
be appreciated. TIA....

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[Alan Morris\(MSFT\)]

Since the connection from machine 3 came in with administrator access, one
is able to change the port settings on machine 1 remotely.

If the connecting machine must print to LPT3 map LPT3 first to the shared
printer. You do not even need to make a connection if the Dos application
is the only app doing any work.

net use LPT3: \\printserver\printshare /p

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