Re: Net Use Printing on Vistaq

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

I did some extensive testing of this over the weekend. Vista
(Home Premium), at least as installed on this laptop, definitely
has some setting that will not let Xy print to a local USB port
mapped as an lpt one. It is probably something in networking or
security, and I hope it can be worked around, but that requires
greater knowledge of Windows internals than I possess.

Here's what happens:
1. The Net Use command completes successfully, and edit.com can
print to the USB port mapped to lpt1.
2. In Xy, with an HP driver loaded, one can printf, then copy
fo.tmp lpt1 (or 2) from a NTVDM command line, and the file prints
perfectly.
3. But Print in Xy yields "Write Fault. Printer Error." And no
data stream is being sent to the printer (no blinking light, no
noises, nothing in the queue).
I have UAC (a ruddy piece of arrogant Big-Brotherism if ever
there was one) turned off but the Windows firewall ON (both
inbound and outbound). But it's supposed to tell me if it's
blocked something, and it doesn't when I try to print from Xy.
The Network connections are all active (as I said, I had to do
this at the office, where there is a USB HP printer, and the
laptop logged onto that network without a whimper, once I changed
the workgroup name to the one used there.
This makes me wonder if there could be some similar setting in XP
that is interfering with with some people's attempts to use the
NetUse end run?
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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx