Printer/LPT2: - How to let DOS program see security device on LPT2: ?

[Sam Bardell]

Printer/LPT2: - How to let DOS program see security device on LPT2: ?

Hi,
I have an MS-DOS program that needs a security device on a printer port so
the software can run.
At a clean MS-DOS 6.20 boot, the software sees the security device on LPT2:
and all is swell - just no NT.
When I run in NT 4.0 WS SP3, I get "security device not found - press ESC"
when I run the same software from a default DOS window and also a "tweaked"
icon that points to the DOS program.

How can I tell NT to let the DOS window and program get at the LPT2: port?

Thanks,

Booting to DOS

[Derek Morton]

net use lpt2: \\machine\printer

On Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:48:38 -0000, "Sam Bardell" <samba...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

[Peter Sørensen]

Sam Bardell wrote:
>
> Printer/LPT2: - How to let DOS program see security device on LPT2: ?
>
> Hi,
> I have an MS-DOS program that needs a security device on a printer port so
> the software can run.
> At a clean MS-DOS 6.20 boot, the software sees the security device on LPT2:
> and all is swell - just no NT.
> When I run in NT 4.0 WS SP3, I get "security device not found - press ESC"
> when I run the same software from a default DOS window and also a "tweaked"
> icon that points to the DOS program.
>
> How can I tell NT to let the DOS window and program get at the LPT2: port?

You need a driver for the security block, because NT 'protects' the
hardware, e.g. the printer port. If it's an old DOS program it could be
a problem getting a driver.

I have used some Windows programes who run fine on Win95, but need a
driver (called 'sentinel') when running on NT, fortunatly they were
supplied with the programmes, but they should be install seperatly.
Check the install disk/CD to see if a driver exist.

--
Peter Sørensen
n...@kom.auc.dk

The solution to many problems lies in having somebody else do the work.
[Andrew S. Tanenbaum]