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Print Drive Mappings Switching Ports

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Okay, I am having a weird problem with machines keeping the proper LPTx printer mappings.

Here is the situation: I created an image for a Computer Lab at a College, where I set via printer wizard two unc mappings for two available printers. Both of these mappings are captured to a LPT port to help printing from DOS apps. Anyhow, over the last couple of days, I have started getting complaints that students trying to print to their default printer are in fact printing to the other printer. I go in and check the printer maps and discover the UNC paths for each LPT port have switched (LPT1 has UNC path to printer that is supposed to be set to LPT2 and vice versa). I have no idea what may be causing this problem. The problem is randomas well as it does not occur every time.

Info on Network:

Win95b, Novell Client 3.21, ZenWorks 2.0 with User and Workstation policies in effect. Student machines are totally locked down and they have no way to go in and change the settings. I have checked the Login Scripts and and did not see any printer settings.

Suggestions?

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Drive Mappings

In reply to Print Drive Mappings Switching Ports

Are you cacheing windows passwords. If so disable this in the ZEN policy and see if it helps. Windows passwords do strange things sometimes.

Login Scripts and the capture command.

In reply to Print Drive Mappings Switching Ports

First I would re check all the login scripts and insure there is no capture command for LPT1. I have learned never to capture LPT1 in the login script it will allways cause problems down the line. If this is not the problem then make certain thereare no capture commands hidden in one of the users programs. Also if the user is running a program from there network home directory, check thease files also. Use the F3 search function in windows and do an advanced text search of the Hard drive for the words: “Capture & LPT1. This will search all files on the hard drive and rule out any Capture command that may be tucked into an .ini, .bat etc.

Registry Settings

In reply to Print Drive Mappings Switching Ports

I found the problem and it was my fault 😉

Hard-coding registry settings for one lab was used on the other lab without switching the default printer.

Thanks for your responses.

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