No Hal, unfortunately this doesn't work in Vista that way.
For hours now, I'm trying to get a dot matrix printer EPSON LQ300 to work
together with a DOS program on a Vista Home Premium 32-bit Laptop without
physical parallel port. I'm using a simple USB -> Parallel cable for about
20,- Euros.
In XP - but not in Vista! - the procedure to get the printer working is as
follows:
The XP-computer has to be part of a network. Internet connection is
sufficient.
connect cable & printer. Drivers are installed automatically by Vista.
Share the printer. Use a short name with no spaces.
As an admin start the console (cmd)
Input: NET USE LPT1: \\Computername\Printername /persistent:yes
After that, DIR > LPT1: will print the directory to the printer
Until here the Vista Laptop does the same as an XP one does!
However, under XP, the DOS appplication works fine, under Vista it crashes
with 'device not ready'
There are many similar complaints to be read on various forums on the web. I
haven't seen any solution yet, however.
So, can you present us a solution to the problem ??
Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
