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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.

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