Did you try mapping lpt1 to /dev/parport0 and your modem to /dev/modem?
I use RH 6.2 and this worked for me.
Cindy
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:13 PM
To: Edward Schernau
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: VMWARE
Ed,
I am using VMWARE 2.0 and cannot get printing to work. I'm intrigued by
your suggestion and would like to understand it better. I'm running
Windows 95 as my guest OS, and have lpt1 mapped to /dev/lp1. Whenever I
run vmware, however, it gives an error on this, saying it cannot access
lp1. (I get the same error mapping to /dev/cua1 if my modem is already
connected from within Linux, so my guess is that, in the same way, there
is a conflict between Linux' use of lp1 and vmware's attempted use of
lp1.) How do I do what you suggested and just point to lpd from the guest
os?
William E. Johnson
"Long live Linux!"
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Edward Schernau wrote:
>
> Don't map to /dev/lp0 for local printing, its extremely resource hungry,
> and brought the box to its knees. Just run lpd on the linux side,
> and point your Micros~1 OS at it.
>
> Like I said, very cool. :-)
>
> Ed
>
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