Can someone give one of my clients a step by step run through on how to set up an XP workstation to print from AREV 3.12 to a network printer?
Have tried net use and then printing to LPT1 or LPT2 but it doesnt seem to work
I have had no problems setting it up on win 98 but XP doesnt seem to work for them.
Thanks
Run AREV from a batch file. Put
net use lpt1: /d
net use lpt1: "\\melbourne\hp laserjet 4"
where "melbourne" is the servername and "hp lasterjet 4" is the device name ahead of the AREV.EXE statement and ensure that the program shortcut isn't set "exclusive in foreground".
An alternative to running from a batch file would be to add the "NET USE" command to your "LOGON" record in your "VOC" file. The logon record would look like this…
TCL
PC EXIT net use lpt1: "\\melbourne\hp laserjet 4"
If a "LOGON" record exists in your "VOC" file, then it is executed at logon.
If your user does not have Administrator rights to the computer and that computer has a physical LPT1 port, then Net Use doesn't!
See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 314499
The trick is to disable the LPT1 port using the BIOS setup routine. Then a non-Administrator can Net Use LPT1 just fine.
(this was a hard one to find! see that single line in the KB).
Dave
Better yet just switch all users to use LPT2 instead of Lpt1 in arev settings the only problem you will encounter is when it creates a prn file, by microsoft defaults it gets routed to lpt1 so you may have to give that users power rights, Works great fo us in a xp windows2003 server eniv