Dennis, first let me apologize for not getting back to you after our last chat... got sick with the flu, then thanksgiving, then a crisis at work, etc..
Second.. "/dev/lp0"... hmmm, this implies you are NOT using samba to print. Is that the case? - jim On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:16:02 -0800 "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
