Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!bcsaic!sundry!wsc-sun!julien From: julien@wsc-sun.boeing.com (William Julien) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Sharing violation Summary: re: sharing violation Keywords: Zenith 386, >32Meg disk, COM1 printing, Mode command Message-ID: <2268@lago.BOEING.COM> Date: 30 Jun 91 05:16:18 GMT References: <1991Jun20.134634.212@ariel.unm.edu> Distribution: na Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA Lines: 31 In article <1991Jun20.134634.212@ariel.unm.edu>, mikep@hydra.unm.edu (Mike Prine CIRT) writes: > Well let's try that again. The last try resulted in a null message. > > Just when you think your beginning to understand windows a new problems > crops up and kills things. The problem is we just got some new Zenith 386sx > machines with Zenith DOS 4.01 and 40Meg hard disks, 4 meg of Memory and Logitec > serial mice on com2: (I told windows they were MS mice). These machine share an > HP Laserjet printer on a LAN-Spool system that makes it look like a serial > printer so they use COM1 and redirect LPT1 to COM1 with the now famous lines > > MODE COM1:9600,n,8,1,p > MODE LPT1:=COM1 > > This trick works just fine under DOS and for most things under windows but > we got bit when using TELNET form Clarkson and the Pass thru printing > options from or VMS host. It give a message "Sharing Violation ..." > > Our short term fix was to just repartition all the harddisks to <32meg per > partition. I didn't see anything like this in the FAQ file so hopefully > someone knows a more elegant solution. If not I may have to spend some time > on the phone to Microsoft.... > Thanks for any info in advance. have you tried using the SHARE command. This is required in dos 4.0 when you have partitions larger than 32 meg. -- Willaim Julien | julien@wsc-sun.boeing.com | Grin and Boeing Computer Services | julien%wsc-sun@atc.boeing.com | ignore (206) 865-5047 | uw-beaver!bcsaic!wsc-sun!julien | it #include