Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> The Winprinter drivers require direct access to the hardware of the printer
> itself, while the vmware interface presents a generic hardware printer.
>> As Linux cannot recognise or drive the printer itself, it has nothing to
> present to the Windows session, so the session won't see any hardware at
> all. VMWare does not let client OSes access the hardware directly, so even
> the original Winprinter drivers running under the client Win9x/NT session
> will not work.
how do winprinters connect? if they just spew over || ports, then there
doesn't seem like any reason for the drivers not to work (bar changing
modes in the || port). has anyone tried to do this and
failed/succeeded?
kevin
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