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We have some shared AS/400 printers set up in Ops Nav.  We are trying to print 
to these from Windows NT 4.0 workstations and having mixed luck.

It seems that if the user has Client Access installed, there's not really a 
problem.  We may have to map a drive to the AS/400 to establish the connection, 
but it works.

The problem is with PCs that do not have Client Access installed.  It is a 
royal pain to establish a connection to the AS/400 so that the user has access 
authority to the printers.  I have created a user with no rights, can't even 
log in, but if a connection to the AS/400 is made with this profile, such as 
mapping a drive to \\192.168.0.99\QDLS then the user has rights to print to the 
AS/400 printers, which is what we want.

The problem is, the AS/400 does not seem to remember the users connection, so 
each time they log out and in (go home for day and come back) they can not 
print to the AS/400 printers unless they remove the share and re-establish it.

NET USE X: \\192.0.0.99\QDLS USER /USER:USER

This is fine, the user can browse the AS/400 at 192.168.0.99, and can print to 
the printers.  They log off, X: is still mapped but they can't browse or print. 
 I've tried net use x: /delete first then mapping, same thing.  Once user is 
logged in fully if we net use x: /delete and remap, now they can print.

How do I get the AS/400 to allow people to print to the shared printers?  The 
AS/400 is not visible to the internet, and really it doesn't matter if they 
don't use a user name or password at all, I would like anyone to be able to 
print to these printers, but I can't find any type of permission settings in 
the Ops Nav for shared printers.

I've been fighting with this a long time, and we've been printing to our NT 
Server printer as a work around, but the NT Server and the AS/400 fight over 
this printer and sometimes print outs get half printed.

Regards,

Jim Langston



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