Vista Tutorial - Hyper-v LPT

I see that Microsoft Hyper-V 2008 not support LPT redirection.
Do you now any mode to use an LPT no Hyper-V?
I use a software that use hardware LPT or USB protection but no one is supported by Hyper-V. How to solve this?

Thanks a lot

Marco

You're correct - Hyper-V doesn't have a synthetic LPT port. This won't be
supported under Hyper-V.

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"Marco M" <marcomToglimE@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, me too need to connect an lpt hardware software protection in a server
2003 virtual guest on hyperv server. there is a software that connect a lpt
port via lan shared by a fisical pc (sorry for my english)

Thanks in advance
Andrea

"Ryan Sokolowski [MVP]" wrote:

If you find software that forwards LPT requests to another computer's
LPT port over an IP network I would highly appreciate it if you posted
the results here. The alternative is writing your own and includes
creating an LPT driver.

Regards,

Anthony N Malczanek

Andrea71 wrote:

I know of serial port IP forwarders, but not LPT port forwarders. And
certainly there are plenty of network print servers that let you print to a
printer that is connected via LPT to the print server.

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"Anthony N Malczanek" <anthony@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:He'll still need to find a way to get the device he's talking about to
talk to the print server software on the host computer. I think what he
needs is more of a build-it-yourself solution. I would like to know if
this security device he's talking about works well with it. I would
recommend one of these (below) with one of the USB keys if possible.
Parallel ports on a computer capable of running Hyper-V is unnecessary.

[1] http://www.digi.com/pdf/fs_realportusb.pdf
[2]
http://blogs.technet.com/mattmcspiri...v-and-usb.aspx

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.

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"Anthony N Malczanek" <anthony@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:03:00 -0800, "Charlie Russel - MVP"
<charlie@xxxxxx> wrote:
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)

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

Charlie Russel - MVP wrote:No. Read the original post.