Re: Parallel Port Settings?

I cycled through all of these settings and was unable to get a response from
the printer. The printer works properly when connected directly to an XP
machine.



"Bruce Sanderson" wrote:

> To specifically answer your question, there are three places I can think of
> where LPT1 port settings appear:
>
> 1. in the XP virtual machine - Computer Management, Device Manager, expand
> Ports (COM & LPT), right click Printer Port (LPT1), select the Port Settings
> tab
>
> 2. in the Vista X64 host - Computer Management, Device Manager, expand Ports
> (COM & LPT), right click Printer Port (LPT1), select the Port Settings tab
>
> 3. in the BIOS of the host computer
>
> Not sure I can help further; I tried to print to my HP 660C (parallel port)
> from an XP virtual machine without success - XP spooled the print, said it
> was printing and deleted the print (all normal), but nothing appeared on the
> printer.
>
> The host is Vista X64 SP1 using Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, The guest is XP
> SP3.
>
> I know that the HP 660C and the parallel port (on motherboard) are working
> because I could print to it successfully from the Vista host before trying
> to print from the XP guest.
>
> According to
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro....mspx?mfr=true
> and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867587:
>
> a. the parallel port on the host must be the "default" - I/O address
> 378-37F - for LPT1
> b. the host OS must not have already "captured" the port - this essentially
> means you have to stop the Print Spooler service on the host - you probably
> need to set the Print Spooler start type to Disabled and restart the host
>
> Until I did b. I got an error in the Virtual Server Event Log that the port
> could not attached because it was not available - already in use.
>
> Also, you need to restart the guest after changing the LPT1 setting in the
> guest VM Properties from None to Host LPT1.
>
> Possible alternatives
> 1. if you have another computer (even an old one about to be recycled),
> would be to attach your printer to the old computer and printing over the
> network from the guest VM
> 2. get a network printer box (often called a "Print Server") hat has a
> parallel connection (e.g. an HP JetDirect) - you should be able to print to
> this by creating a Standard TCP/IP Port in the Add Printer Wizard (see
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Prin...r%20device.htm
> for details).
>
> --
> Bruce Sanderson
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
>
> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
>
>
>
> <newscorrespondent@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:_WEpk.29861$KZ.22266@newsfe03.iad...
> > My host is Vista64 SP1.
> > I am using Virtual Server 1.1.629.0 R2 SP1
> > I have an ALPS 5000 printer that does not have VISTA drivers.
> > I have a virtual XP Professional SP3 machine with the ALPS 2.2.4 drivers
> > installed. I have attached the parallel port to this machine.
> > When I print the print dialog says the printer is not responding.
> > I have not found any place to change or set parallel port settings, where
> > can I look?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tom
>
>