Eric,
You probably already know this technique inside the Windows standard SMB on
top of NETBIOS over TCP/IP.
I've used network sharing to provide an LPT1 printer to the a DOS program.
It was a Windows XP Home Edition with service pack 3, sp3, installed.
This was outside any VM player's environment.
Once the printer shared the next step is to assign it to intercept output
going to LPT1 like this....
NET USE LPT1 \\computername\printername
...it works most of the time. I've used this with a CA Clipper exe program
which has a fussy library that can, not always, try to access the hardware
directly. Clipper is a 1990s compiler for the dBase language system, files
usually had a dbf extension
It can be replaced with the harbour-project.sourceforge.net hosted to DOS.
There is a xharbour project and a Flagship product and some others.
I can imagine you can use a VM which can share a printer via SMB sharing
using the VM virtual network inside the hosting computer. Then use the same
NET USE assignment
Cheers
John S Wolter
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Not sure why you want to print via network, but if you
> want to use network in VMWare, you can use a DOS driver
> for any virtual network card of VMWare. No need to use
> a driver for the actual network hardware of Windows...
> You can also try other virtual computers such as Bochs,
> VirtualBox and similar :-)
>
> Eric
>
> PS: When using virtual network hardware, you can even
> use Wireless and other modern devices, as long as you
> have the WINDOWS driver for those on your Windows 7.
>
> > I'm experimenting with FreeDOS in an effort to find a solution for
> > access to a legacy DOS application. The environment is an HP laptop
> > (6730s) running Win7 32-bit, VMWare Player v5 and FreeDOS 1.1. All
> > proceeds smoothly until I try to gain access to a printer share via
> > MSClient. (This is the only way I can see to get the application to
> > print.) The challenge occurs when attempting to load the driver for the
> laptop's ethernet card - a Marvell Yukon. The driver is named
> > yuknd.dos.
> ...
> > "Controller not found". What means, if any, are available to get over
> this?
>
>
>
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