EdvardasR

the problem is that they DO NOT have a LPT printer. and i looked locally for a used one, the prices are lets say not very friendly

Hi, Last week end I got an interesting/annoying task from my fathers company (It means no budget or anything). They realized that the ancient box (AMD 5x85, 8 megs of ram and a whopping 850 meg hard drive) has some specialized accounting system from a company that is gone now and need the data back. I chose vmware player for them on the desktop (the setup of the virtual machine was done in vmware server2). Everything runs nice and faster then on the old hardware, even on their oldish machines ( Athlon XP 1800+). But there is a small problem with printing. The application is only able to print to parallel port, it would work from what i understand, if they had LPT printer. Is there a way to force vmware server/player to pas data from the virtual lpt port to a printer on USB? Thank you for your time