Re: Disable LPT1 script

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:19:13 -0800

If you read the kb article it explains exactly why it
cannot be done in the usual manner:

"When a user who is not an administrator tries to use the
net use command to remap an LPT port to a network printer
(for example, net use lpt1: \\printer server\print share),
and the LPT port is already assigned to the local parallel
port, the LPT port is not remapped. A use who is not an
administrator can still map a network printer to an LPT
port that is not already assigned to a local parallel-
port.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because only a member of the
Administrators group can use the net use command to map
the LPT port for a local (hardware) parallel port to a
network printer. This behavior is designed to help improve
security."

I need someone to explain to me how the recommended fix in
the article is supposed to work using devcon and start up
scripts. I cant get it to work.

Cheers

>-----Original Message-----
>I guess I'm confused why they can't use the net use
command while logged in
>using their domain account - even with regular local user
permissions, this
>should work just fine. Can't you just put it in these
users' login scripts,
>or even just a batch file in their startup folders? If
you try to run that
>command manually from their computers while logged in as
them, what errors
>do you get?
>
>Jamie wrote:
>> I have an old dos app that prints to LPT1. I need to
>> allow a couple of WinXP PC's to map the print port to
>> LPT1. This is easy if the user is loging on locally
(net
>> use lpt1: \\server\printer) but they are loging in using
>> their domain account.
>>
>> I have read the following MS article but I dont really
>> understand it:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
>> us;313644
>>
>> I have downloaded Devcon and I can use it as desired
when
>> logged onto the XP machine as local account with admin
>> rights (devcon disable *PNP0401). But I cant get it to
>> work in a group policy startup script. I have created
an
>> OU with the relevant XPmachines in it. But I'm not sure
>> what to put in the script or where to locate the
>> devcon.exe for the script to work correctly.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas on this?
>
>
>.
>

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