Ed,

Thanks for the help. We will give it a try on Monday morning. Is this set of commands (NET USE) applicable to the XP Professional operating system? The reason I mention that is your statement "In my Win2k login script...". XP Pro is what is running on the laptop and where we wish to capture the port at LPT1. Also, I'm assuming the

and

commands need to be exactly as you have referenced them.

Mike

>NET USE on Microsoft Client networks, and CAPTURE on Novell, or calls to the WSH Wscript.Network AddprinterConnection or AddWindowsPrinterConnection methods, or the WNet API all would work.
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>In my Win2K login script, I assign the queue laserplain on the DC WEATHERSVR to LPT1: with the following:
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NET USE LPT2 /D
>REM this deleted the pre-existing mapping of a device to LPT2 if it was there
>NET USE LPT2 \\WEATHERSVR\LASERPLAIN /yes /persistent:yes

>REM this assigned the LASERPLAIN queue to my LPT2 device