Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - dos printer network in vmware

2012-09-20 Thread john s wolter
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 environ

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject) - dos printer network in vmware

2012-09-19 Thread Eric Auer
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 s