peer to peer printing

In a peer to peer network, win 98, I set up a printer share, running local on a workstation, when the user shuts down the machine she gets the usual message there are users connected if you shut down they will be disconnected, on the other hand if the other users connect to the network and the computer with the printer share is not on they will get the message, the printer is not available do you want to reconnect next time, I know this are normal messages, but I have a pain in the *** customer, and they want those messages not coming up, is there a way to eliminate them and still have the print share, they claim it was done in the past.

Any help is much apreciated.

Are these client PC’s capturing LPT1 to the shared printer on the host PC? If they are, and don't need it then remove the capture. You shouldn't get an error on the clients if they are just connected to the share, unless they try to access the printer once logged in, and the host is off. If they require the capture for a DOS application, then you have to leave it in place.

If the above isn’t the “way they did it in the past”, ask the young lady with the host PC to log off of her PC, instead of shuting it down. The other users would never see the error in connecting then. :p :p :p

As far as a way to remove the messages all together, I don't think that can be done, short of a registry hack…that I wouldn't recommend.

thanks Buddy, I will try that, I did capture the port just in case, but I don't think they really need it.