Mapping Lpt1 to an active directory printer object

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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/

--
Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCDBA
Flagship Integration Services

"Paul C" <PaulC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:46DC05F3-44C8-4AD6-9D70-30DDBE498698@microsoft.com...
> 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
>
>
> --
> Paul C