DOS Printing: System Error 66

Thanks Paul. Doing this still gives me the error #66. Given that I'm
signed on as Administrator anyway, should I have expected different
results?

Jim



On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:40:02 -0700, PaulB
<PaulB.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Right click on the CMD shortcut and click on "Run as administrator" When the
>Command Prompt opens the heading will be Administrator Command Prompt.

I went back and reassigned LPT1 on my system and the only time I get that
error is when the servername\printername is wrong. I'm not sure what the
problem is.
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Paul


"Jimbo" wrote:

> Thanks Paul. Doing this still gives me the error #66. Given that I'm
> signed on as Administrator anyway, should I have expected different
> results?
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:40:02 -0700, PaulB
> <PaulB.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >Right click on the CMD shortcut and click on "Run as administrator" When the
> >Command Prompt opens the heading will be Administrator Command Prompt.
>
>

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:46:03 -0700, PaulB
<PaulB.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I went back and reassigned LPT1 on my system and the only time I get that
>error is when the servername\printername is wrong. I'm not sure what the
>problem is.


Thanks PaulB. Here is the specific syntax, and as mentioned, it works
fine on my XP clients but does not work on my Vista clients. I've
tried adding colons, etc., to "LPT1", but I always get error 66. Is
it possible that the syntax has changed from XP to Vista? The 'net
use' help appears to be very similar between the two OSes.

Net Use LPT1 \\server2007\hp50000 password /USER:Administrator

Jim

Thanks Paul; it's not the first Vista bug I've encountered



On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:24:03 -0700, PaulB
<PaulB.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi Jim,
>The only part of the syntax that I'm not sure of is the password. I don't
>use that.
>You probalby know this but type net use /? and check it out. I wish I
>could be of more help.

Has anyone EVER solved this problem? It is many months and a Vista
Service Pack later and this still seems to fail for me. This is a REAL
pain for me Thanks for any pointers.

Harvey


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fishman RemoveThis @panix.com

So far the information you gave is not sufficient to even define your exact
problem, let alone try to find a solution. System Error 66 has several
possible causes, many related to network printing.
Since you did not give the conditions that exist when the error occurred,
all I can suggest is that you do is search the MSKB using Vista and system
error 66. At least half a dozen references were visible when I recently did
so. I should also mention that the search engine or the web site seemed to
be acting up a bit.

What printer make & model?
Which Vista version?
What are you doing when the error occurs?
Is there any reason why you are using "DOS" ? (Obsolete Application, etc)

"fishman@panix.com" <guest.TakeThisOut@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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>
> Has anyone EVER solved this problem? It is many months and a Vista
> Service Pack later and this still seems to fail for me. This is a REAL
> pain for me Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Harvey
>
>
> --
> fishman.TakeThisOut@panix.com

I was getting the same error when I was trying to install a new network
printer using a Vista machine. Ultimately what I had to do was plug in
the printer to the network, go to the server, install the driver, then
using the IP address of the printer, install the printer. Once that was
installed, I shared the printer, then I went back to the Vista machine,
used the *net use lpt1 /delete *command. Then I installed the printer
to the local machine, and then went in and used the net use lpt1
\\location\printername.

Also, when I tried to do the run as administrator from Vista, I typed
in net use to see my stats and it told me everything was unavailable.
So I just went in normally and it worked perfectly.

Hope this helps.

KR


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