Re: XP Print to LPT1 "Access Denied"

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:42:22 -0500, Elwood P. Suggins wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:36:59 -0500, Elwood P. Suggins wrote:
>
>> Client with a Dell computer running XP 2002 tried connecting an Epson dot
>> matrix printer to LPT1. It prints from notepad, but trying to print from
>> DOS Clipper program gives an error and won't print; trying a command line
>> "copy x.txt lpt1" gives error "Access Denied". This is hearsay - I'm 200
>> miles away, and trying to do this on the phone, but I pretty much trust
>> the person doing it, so I'm fairly sure what she's telling me is
>> reasonably accurate.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> This printer was connected to a W98 box and shared with the XP box, which
> worked okay except that the XP box occasionlly decided that it couldn't
> see the printer anymore and she had to go print something on the W98 box
> to get it back online. The W98 box croaked.

For anyone who gives a rat's ass, here's what I've found so far. I haven't
had a chance to try it out yet, because it's after closing on Saturday
night, but here's what I have.

For XP Pro (which this is) apparently you can't print from DOS unless you
have Admin rights (yeah, right, sounds like a good idea to me), so that's
probably the first thing we'll try.

The workaround is to share the printer and set lpt2 to point to the shared
printer.

What a crock. Thanks, Bill.

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