Bo Berglund wrote:
Quote:
> 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.
> I recommend going USB since he mentioned the USB hardware device comes
in USB form.