DOS printing under VMware

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

> Yes, but examples are usually better than placeholders.


Only when the example is more comprehensible than the placeholder; in
this case, it was not, even leaving aside the requirement that it
would require prior knowledge of who or what Posy was. Providing both
is probably the best paedagogical practice.


> And I have found that "persistent:yes" is really, uh, persistent.


1. The persistent command has been reported by some to be less than
perpetual; hence the recommendation that some users will have to
repeat it via a batch file. Moreover, I have encountered scenarios
where the 'persistent' part of the command will not be accepted by
the command processor, even while the prior part of the command is
accepted. It just goes to show that each setup, or even incident, can
be different when you're dealing with this OS, this VM, and this situation.


2. The computer's network name is far from a given. My W2K's network
name was Win2000, but I had to change it to something else before net
use would recognize it. Who woulda known? It simply wasn't registering.


3. I had not realized that I would have to install printer drivers in
Win2K; mercifully, Lexmark's drivers still work for W2K; they
probably even still have drivers for Mac System 8 with GX.


4. After all of that, printing still does not work in VMware. By
obstinately tracking a message that only lasts for a second on the
screen (indicating that the print stream was being sent to a port
called TPVM), I was able to google the bad news: later versions of
VMware apparently won't print to DOS using the techniques we have
been talking about here:


https://communities.vmware.com/message/2312089

because "every installed printer in the XP VM is assigned to a TPVM
port (ThinPrint print port for VMware) instead of [as in earlier
versions] a network IP".


5. So some other solution (there must be one) needs to be found for
those who want to print directly from XyWrite. I am not one of them,
but I would like to know how to do it, just in case!


At 05/04/2014 21:35, you wrote:
> Yes, but examples are usually better than placeholders. And I have
> found that "persistent:yes" is really, uh, persistent.
>
>
>
> >    net use lpt1:  \\computername\printersharename /persistent:yes ?
> >
> > as more conventionally stated here - -
> >
> > http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Other-Printing-Questions/printing-from-a-dos-based-program-with-Windows-7/td-p/252289
> >
> > in which case further hints are, run the DOS window in administrator
> > mode, and consider the experience of the user who lowers UAC to Never Notify.