I have an ATE/Linux environment in which I'm printing via AUXLOC. I had to install ATE under one Domain user on the windows box, and it's being run under a different user. I'm receiving an fopen() err #3 when it tries to copy the file to the ATE machine. Does anyone know how to fix this?

I'm a little confused by this. Is it a Windows error message? If so, does it show "Opening printer temp file" and list the filespec that it is trying to open? If so, that would help clarify what the issue is.

In theory, ATE tries to create a temp file for the captured print file, called dsk0/001004/pr#####.tmp in the ATE installation tree. So maybe the runtime user can't see that directory? I would have expected an access denied error.

It might be possible to get ATE to use a specific print file spec, but first I'd like to have the feeling that I understand what is going on here, which I don't have yet.

That's exactly right. Sorry for not clarifying that. Do you know what would cause the runtime user to not be see the directory, permissions maybe? Is there a possible work around?

Well, one idea is to manually see if you can adjust the permissions on the directory tree.

Otherwise, I need to review the docs and/or code to see how to override the default location of the temp file.

What version is this?

This is version 5.0.998.8. This is one of Harris Baking's customers and unfortunately I don't really have access to changing their permissions. The server side version is 5.0.999.2.

OK, I'd forgotten about this parameter, but it looks like it might do the trick.

In the printer init file(s), add the following:

AUXPCDIR=C:\TEMP

or perhaps better yet

AUXPCDIR=%TEMP%

The notes for it in the Setup Guide say the following:

Thank you, this fixed the printing problem.