DOS LPT1 Print to USB in XP guest

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RalphA

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I'm having the hardest time getting a DOS app I have to print to the connected USB printer in an XP guest. Using the usual net use trick fails:

net use lpt1 \\HomeBox\Printer /Persistent:Yes

where "HomeBox" is my computer name and "Printer" is the shared printer name in the XP printer object. That works fine when running XP as the host on a PC. And yes, when XP is running as guest in the Parallels VM on my Mac Mini with OSX Lion installed, XP can definitely print from that VM.

What am I missing?
 
Ralp, did you ever get this resolved, it is driving me NUTS and prhobiting switching multiple machines to mac platform :( ....
 
Though I eventually moved to VMware, this is what works for me:

@echo off
NET USE LPT1 /DELETE
net use lpt1 \\HomeBox\Printer /Persistent:Yes

Note that my batch file first deletes the exisitng LPT1 assignment.
 
So under VMware everything worked ok when you issued the net use command ? Cause I was getting erros when trying to issue the command, I will try what you posted above. You issued that batch command everytime you started your Virtual OS ?
 
It works fine, but not if you use Windows 7. I assume you're trying this with XP. You're out of luck with Windows 7.
 
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