First 
Thanks to all of you who have been trying to help me with this blasted printing 
problem.

VMWare support finally came through.

As I was suspecting - the answer was simple and I had 90% of it earlier.  The 
last 10% can be a total bitch - as it was in this case.

The answer was to configure the parallel port to append to a  "file" /dev/lp0.
I had come across this recommendation before except all that documentation 
referred to parport0  NOT lp0.  GRRRR.

Suse docmentation was also referring to parport0.  One of the frustrating 
things is to have problems discovered and solved but documentation is not 
updated in a timely fashion.

So I can now print from the guest os (Win2K)

However - remaining issues still include

Somewhat sluggish performance of the guest os (Win2K0
Inconsistent ability to double click icons etc
Difficulties in resizing or moving windows
Total performance degradation in full screen mode - basically unusable.

Performance issues are very puzzling to me based on my system configuration 
below

 CPU is a Pentium 4  3.4 Ghz Extreme  
 2 Gb Ram 
 twin 160 Gb HDDs running software RAID.
 Graphics - Nvidia FX5700 with 256Mb RAM
 Host OS is SuSE 9.1 Pro - has been updated since installation.
 
 VMWare Workstation 4.5

I allocated 928 Mb ram to thhe virtual machine.

If anyone has some ideas on tweaking this for faster performance - please share.

Thanks again

Dennis


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