Re: GPOs and COM/LPT ports

There is one setting I can think of to check and that is in Local Security
policy under local policies/security options - devices:unsigned driver
behavior. If it is set to do not allow installation that could be an issue.

Steve


<robert.yung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I am having issues with running certain legacy applications that
require communication with parallel port dongles and COM port
instruments on an XP workstation. Logging on with admin does not fix
the problem so I'm fairly certain that rights are not an issue. In
some cases, the dongles are not detected by the software at all, in
others, software will detect a device on a COM port, but not transfer
any information to it.

To top it off, the affected software works fine on another XP machine,
at the same patch level, that is *NOT* on the domain. This leads me
to wonder if its a GPO thing?

Clues? Suggestions? Any help would be appreciated..

Thanks alot!



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