Mapping LPT Ports

h0stn0tf0und

XP Professional.
Users local group: Users

I have a script that maps shares and printers for users. All the shares map fine as does all the printers except one. If I run the script as a Local Administrator everything maps fine. The printers are shared via a printserver and all have the correct security settings. I have read that XP wont alow users to map LPT1 under certain conditions but I am trying to map LPT3 and it fails everytime. I am able to map LPT1 no problem.

net use lpt3: \\myprintserver\myprinter 

The password is invalid for \\myprintserver\myprinter 

Enter the user name for 'myprintserver':

If I even supply a user name and password, it fails!

System error 5 has occured.
Access Denied

I can browse to the printserver and connect to the printer without any trouble, mapping just will not work. Its very annoying as it maps a total of 5 printers and LPT3 is the only one to fail.

Any ideas? Gonna be pulling hair soon.

Capt'n Midnight

The password is invalid for \\myprintserver\myprinter

try

net use
to see what it's trying to do first

net use lpt3: \\myprintserver\myprint /user:%username%
net use lpt3: \\myprintserver.domain\myprint /user:domain\%username%

don't forget
net view \\myprintserver

and make sure there are no spaces in the print share, so you don't have to arse about with quotes

hshortt

Get con2prt.exe, make sure it's in the netlogon folder and call it from your script.

cheerio
Howard