Hi, All, Just a note in case this is relevant to anyone:
I have found that on computers which have an actual LPT1 printer port installed, if the user does not have administrator rights, the Net Use command to redirect LPT1 will fail for them. You must first disable LPT1 in administrator mode. Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Marfil To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [Dataperf] virtualization Fabio, I have a Windows based network running a DP app and printing to USB printers, some via "net use" and others via dpspool. Both work perfectly. If you're using the "net use" with the USB printer connected directly to your computer, you will still need to "share" the printer so you can redirect your LPT1. Example: net use lpt1: \\LAXDIMP3\hp-1320 The "LAXDIMP3" being the name of the computer the USB printer is attached to, and the "hp-1320" the share name of the printer. You can incorporate this command line in your DP app's .bat file if you prefer. Of course, any other machine in the same network can now also print to the same printer using the net use command. I should advise you that between net use and dpspool, I now prefer the dpspool method. My only problem with dpspool is the font and pitch variation between different printer brands (the same report prints out differently in a canon than an hp). Ed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Hancock Sent: Monday, August 01, 2011 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] virtualization You probably have this covered about the DOS Guest not seeing shared Netbios resources on the VMWare host. Have you ensured that the resources on the osts are shared with a 8.3 filenaming convention? Although not specifically with VMWare I have occasionally be stung by the fact that I had a long share name. Hostname sharename and subfolder names must not be more than 8 DOS legal characters long. Same also applies to printer sharenames, just in case the net use LPT1 is trying to use a long filename. If you can write to a shared host folder then you can use whatever you want to use to print from the host, DPSpool, prinftfile etc. As I said I am a big fan of wrapping up DP output in HTML, and using a CSS sheet to style it. Regards Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Muller Fabio Sent: Monday, 1 August 2011 1:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] virtualization Ok Guys , Just don't wanna to confuse things. The First goal is to print by a virtual machine (if possible). Then we go to the print quality. Jon , I'm using Vmware player 3.x , but I think everything done here can be replicate in your config. Regarding printing , DOXBOX megabuild worked fine to me. But, as I'm having problems with keyboard mapping and ctrl-F keys which are not working, I jumped to VMware. In vmware, CTRL-F keys are working fine but printing is not working. By the way , My printer is USB. Normal parallel would work fine. So I'm trying a workaround to see if I can print from Vmware to my USB print. By what I saw in the forums is very difficult to make VMware using a DOS guest OS to print to a USB in the host. I tried the Net use LPT1 but it did not work. Tried a software called printfile that can work to monitor a directory and send all files there to the printer but vmware locks down the file that it uses as a printer output when configured to work with output to file and printfile is not working well due this particular aspect. Now I'm testing if I can connect to the usb printer via the virtual machine network. The most difficult part which is setup a dos netbios network is already working but I'm still having some problems with the netbios and the guest is not finding any resource shared on the host. Another point is that I'm trying with Freedos and free tools , I have another Virtual machine with MS-DOS/Windows 3.11 installed but in this case I cannot make it available if it works. Anyway I'll continue to test with Vmware , meanwhile if somebody has a DOXBOX config running fine pls advise. Rgds... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 31/7/2011 19:51, [email protected] wrote: On 2011-07-29 6:04 PM, Jong wrote:Fabio: Did you use VMWare 7 for this? I bought a copy and am waiting for anew Toshiba Prot?g? portable to arrive to install. I hope to useDataperfect (which I run under the old WordPerfect Office) to continuerunning my patient database program. Using usb output for a printeris a must. I've seen a usb to parallel port converter atwww.cyberguys.com <http://www.cyberguys.com/> but their support told meit wouldn't work unlessprogram running it saw the virtual parallel port.SO, hope you can figure it out -- otherwise it leaves anyone with anew computer dead in the water. Jon Ong MD -----Original Message-----From: [email protected][ <mailto:[email protected]>mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Muller FabioSent: Friday, July 29, 2011 2:46 PMTo: [email protected]: [Dataperf] virtualization Gentlemen , I know you are already very skilled in virtualization butI didn't find any vmware appliance ready with DP, so I decide to buildone. It seems to be working fine, my only problem is with printing, asI don't have a parallel print but an USB and I'm still trying to putthe appliance to print. I'm trying to redirect the LPT1 to USB viawindows but I'm not getting to much success. I tested dosbox megabuildtoo but I'm having problems with CTRL-F keys. Printing is working finein DOXBOX after some changes in the config file. Does anybody havesuccess to remap the CTRL-F Keys ? Is it possible to copy the configfile and send in a msg to the list ? Regarding the vmware appliance,as soon as I got success with the printer I'll try to let the applianceavailable somewhere. 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