Local Printer Prints to Network Printer

[Midiean1]

I have two Win2K systems with local printers that will begin redirecting print jobs to a network printer and continue to do so until the system is rebooted. It has become quite an irritance to those users. Anyone have any fixes for this, other than a system rebuild. Thanks

The local printers are two different HPs

It is a Client/Server Network running Netware 5.0

Both systems are Win2K

Manufacturer is Dell

SP1 is installed on both systems

 

[Zelandakh]

have you got a net use lpt1: \\... somewhere?

 

[Midiean1]

Nope, I also check the login script on the novell side for a dos lpt1 connection.

 

[Midiean1]

If there were a net use lpt1: \\ somewhere, it would print there all the time. These systems are redirecting halfway through the day with out any interferance from the user or myself

 

[pbxman]

Hmmm..

Try running a batch file that has this in it:

net use
for /f "Skip=4 Tokens=2" %%i in ('net use') do @if not "%%i"=="command" @if not "%%i" LSS "LPT1" @if not "%%i" GTR "LPT9" net use %%i /d


it should only be on 2 lines in notepad..no wordwrap.

Either that, or you've got print pooling enabled or something. Also - some print software will automatically redirect print jobs to another available printer if the printer is very busy or has a problem.

Hope that helps pbxman
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[Midiean1]

What will this bat do. I don't recognize some of the useage of net use. Please explain

 

[pbxman]

It's similar to using

net use * /d

Using net use */d dumps all of your net connections. This bat just dumps and print mappings you might have, and keeps all of the other drive mappings assigned to non-print devices.

It's not gonna reformat your HD or anything, i promise It's safe. pbxman
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