On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:03:00 -0800, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<charlie@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>No, he just needs a network connection to the printer. The days of needing
>LPT are long past us.
>
>For USB in Hyper-V, I use FabulaTech. Works very well indeed.
LPT connected dongles for software protection use their own drivers
that cannot be bypassed as such. They go directly to the hardware I/O
instead of using the printer driver of Windows. So you cannot do
anything in terms of drivers to fix this problem.
The only thing the OP can do is to get a different protection system
from his software vendor. Some will supply a "site license" where the
dongle sits on a different computer and is connected via the network.
That will work, but only if the OP can get such a system from his
software supplier....
Of course an alternate route is to skip Hyper-V altogether and use
VirtualPC 2007 instead, which offers PLT pass-through usable by at
least SafeNet Sentinel dongles (I have tetsed). Or maybe even VMWare
Workstation or Player, which pass the LPT port over as well.
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Bo Berglund (Sweden)