As Dave suggested, if your printer is attached to a parallel port (unlikely
unless it is a very old printer), you should be able to map the physical port
to the VMWare guest OS (never tried it myself, but it should work). You could
also try the file approach that Dave suggested -- that would require VMSMount
to be able to store a file on the host drive from the guest OS.
If it's a USB printer (much more likely), no viable solution to print directly
to the printer currently exists other than the network thing you're trying to
do. VMWare does not emulate the USB host hardware properly, so neither my DOS
USB drivers nor Georg Potthast's work under VMWare. Those are are the only two
drivers available for directly using a USB printer in DOS -- none of the other
DOS USB drivers support printers at all. This may get fixed in a future
version of VMWare and/or the DOS drivers. VMWare is proprietary/closed source,
so there's no way to figure out exactly why it doesn't work correctly.
For the network, I've gotten a packet driver (PCNTPK) to work in VMWare, but
I'm not sure how to convert a packet driver to something that MS Client can
use. I think there's a way, but am not sure -- somebody who knows more about
networking may be able to tell you.
George,
Where is the printer physically located? Is it an LPT port on the host PC? If
so why not configure
VMWare to use a physical LPT port?
Alternatively VMWare can be configured to send print information to a file
which you could
then send to a network printer from Windows.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: George Brooks <truckeetr...@yahoo.com>
To: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>; freedos-user
<freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 9:55 pm
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers
Well, I've reached the conclusion that I can't get there from here. Even with
a seemingly bootable floppy image (using FreeDOS to format the VMWare Player
blank floppy image specified in the vm's setting then copying netbootdisk.com's
files to that floppy) I get stuck. Boot hangs at the line
install=NetBoot\tunz.com -o NetBoot\boot.zip N:\
with the screen displaying only
RDISK 11-27-2009. 8-MB Memory.
I even tried modifying the FreeDOS boot menu, adding option 5 to run the
commands from netbootdisk.com, but pointing to files on C:. Stepping this way
failed at the equivalent tunz line, only with the additional error
Inflating N:\command.com
Incorrect DOS version
I tried three different versions of command.com: From XP's \i386, from Bart's
network boot disk, and the one added when formatting FreeDos. Each was placed
in boot.zip. None worked.
I'm glad to know that others have been successful getting an MSClient to work
in FreeDOS running in VMWare Player. I'm just not in that happy band.
Georeg
From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
To: George Brooks <truckeetr...@yahoo.com>;
"freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net" <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: vmware and dos drivers
Hi!
Here are some network boot disk images:
http://veder.com/nwdsk/
http://www.netbootdisk.com/download.htm
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/
Somehow they seem not linked on
http://www.freedos.org/links/
but that page also is shorter than I
had remembered (with many "..." now?)
> The networkbook65.iso failed on my virtual machine so...
Details?
> I searched for a floppy image of the netbootdisk without success so...
See above :-)
Eric
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