Just a quick thought, one of the things I remembered when is et up my LexMark
OptraE312 to print serve/serve the drivers to windows was taht you had to
specifically alter the case of some files names to match what the windows
installer was looking for.
HTH,
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 09:13, you wrote:
> I was trying to load printer drivers from a linux server onto two windows9x
> clients, one 95, one 98, for a lexmark z53 printer, which works just swell
> with linux.
> The drivers downloaded, but rebooting windows in both machines just hangs
> up at the point when it asks for your windows password.
> So, it seems that a file downloaded from the server did something bad to my
> windows boxes. There were some error messages about a file called
> lexcbes.exe or something similar being in use when I tried to download the
> files from the server. On one machine I thoughtfully deleted that file in
> dosmode, but on the other I just rebooted and the download went to
> completion but windows won't restart properly.
> I can only assume that this file is important to running windows other
> than just printing to the z53.
> Maybe the case mangling did something bad. Who knows?
> ANYWAY,
> I need to start windows in dosmode so I can try to reinstall the file I
> think is the culprit. I don't use windows so I don't know how.
> Any insight appreciated.
> Joel
>
>
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