Win 2K Server with 3 USB printers, and XP Pro workstations,

windows printing is fine, no delay, all 3 printers respond

in dos 3 usb printers are mapped to lpt1, lpt2, lpt3 with

net use lpt1: \\servername\usb1

net use lpt2: \\servername\usb2

net use lpt3: \\servername\usb3

all three print fine, no delay

now in arev lpt1 print jobs do not respond, i get a printer not ready or out of paper error. but the other 2 (lpt2 and lpt3) print fine however there is a delay but atleast it prints

i tried this, net use lpt1: \\servername\usb3 (the printer that does work)

sending from dos and windows works as it should

but in arev it still gives me the same error

i am not familiar with arev and i am certain that this is an arev issue. what can i try or did i over look something?

Pat

From Arev TCL (press F5) type SETPRINTER to see that LPT1 port is defined and that the driver roughly matches the printer you have. Then come back here with results.

Tony

setprinter list 3 hp deskjet on lpt1, lpt2, lpt3

physical printers are okidata ML380 on lpt1, okidata ML 390 on lpt2, okidata ML380 on lpt3

lpt2 and lpt3 works but lpt1 doesn't

over the weekend tinkering around i found some interesting tidbits I also setup a windows 98 machine and that works fine, but xp doesn't

i found some microsoft articles on xp and printing.

now this is when it gets wierd.

some xp stations have a local printer to lpt1, sometimes it prints to the network lpt1 and other times it prints to local lpt1 i guess it decided when it reboots or when arev is loaded

some xp workstations ask for a username and password when mapping lpt1, when there is no password and users have access to it. microsoft knowledge base provides a utility to disregaurd this but

using microsft devcon disable method doesn't do anything for some reason

disabling lpt1 in the bios allows mapping to lpt1 but it still doesn't print.

server eventlogs show that a print was sent it says

document ### Remote Downlevel Document owned by A (a node on the network) was printed on LPT1 via port USB005. Size in bytes 1; pages printed 0.

the logs for lpt2 and lpt3 are similar but one of the entries has a larger size in bytes

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