WinXP gpedit.msc question

wheresmybacon

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Looking for the location - if there is one - in gpedit.msc that will allow me to let Power Users map LPT1 to the UNC path of a network printer.

Right now it seems only folks in the Administrator's group can accomplish this task.

If I add a user to local admin, then

net use lpt1 \\computer\printer /persistent:yes

once I remove them from local admin and have them log back in, if I do a "net use" to see what they've got mapped, it shows the resource in the example above as "unavailable". And of course the prints go nowhere.

Normally users just connect to the printer through >start >run \\computer\printer, but in this case the app we use needs to direct prints to LPT1 because it's older than dirt.
 

wheresmybacon

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Bruceb you are the man. I haven't tested it yet but this link is right on the money. Thank you.