From: "Tony Arcus" 
Subject: Re: Nprinter in Win 98.
Date: 1999/05/24
Message-ID: #1/1
References: 
Organization: Customer of Telecom Internet Services
NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 May 1999 05:02:57 GMT
Newsgroups: fido.novell

goto http://support.novell.com/servlet/Knowledgebase
tpye in nptwin95.exe to searc on
go to the doc called
Troubleshooting Nprinter95 Summary
and you will find the following:

The following is a list of known issues:
Issue 1:
"LPT1 is not supported on this workstation. Please select another printer
that does not use LPT1"
or
"[port] is not a supported port" where [port] is any valid serial or
parallel port name.

Solutions:
Nprinter95 looks in the registry at this parameter:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\BIOS\*PNP0401\0C]
PortName=LPT1
If the PortName is something other than PortName like PORTNAME it will think
the port is not there.
Just deleting the ports and letting windows PNP the configuration back will
not necessarily fix the name, when I do this it brings back PORTNAME instead
of PortName. Two solutions exist to fix this:

1) Run Regedit
Go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\BIOS\
Use menu item Edit / Find type in 'portname'
  Checkmark "Look at" keys, values, and data
  Hit button "Find Next" and find the value PORTNAME
Note the data under portname then rename PORTNAME (right click on it)
Use "PortName" (case sensitive capital P and N the rest small case) hit
return.
Right click again select 'Modify'
Enter a value of LPT1 or whatever portname it was. (All CAPS)


Rodrigo Gallino wrote in message ...
>Hello,
>I'm trying to install the Nprinter for win 95 (nptwin95.exe) in a new
>PC with Win 98 but when i select the printer i get a message that
>"lpt1 (or com2 or com4) is not supported in this computer".
>I have tried in others PCs with Win 98 with identical results.
>In PCs with Win 95 works find.
>I'm using Client 32 versions 2.5 and 3.1.
>Tried to find a new version of Nprint at Novell.com but I couldn't
>found it.
>Can anybody help me.
>Thanks.
>Roy
>