virtualpc printing

installed Microsoft Virtual pc 6.0.156.0 on vista home premium and installed
Win98se. All ok.

Can run some ancient programs but can not print. VPC does not support USB
and of course my printer in on a USB port!

Any suggestions as how I might solve this, short of another printer on lpt1.
Does not have to be real simple as the need for printing is minimal. Print
to a file and then print file from vista?

Will have to have some way of configuring a printer in the vpc. How?

Thanks for any thoughts.

Gary

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:38:43 -0500, "Gary" <>
wrote:

>installed Microsoft Virtual pc 6.0.156.0 on vista home premium and installed
>Win98se. All ok.
>
>Can run some ancient programs but can not print. VPC does not support USB
>and of course my printer in on a USB port!
>
>Any suggestions as how I might solve this, short of another printer on lpt1.
>Does not have to be real simple as the need for printing is minimal. Print
>to a file and then print file from vista?
>
>Will have to have some way of configuring a printer in the vpc. How?
>
>Thanks for any thoughts.
>
>Gary

Use network sharing. Share the printer on Vista, then connect via
standard Windows sharing with Win98. Of course, you'd need Win98
drivers for the printer to install in the Win98 VM.

alternately, get a free print to pdf program, use that, print to the
Win98 desktop, and drag and drop it to Vista and just print from
Vista.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/

Gary wrote:
> installed Microsoft Virtual pc 6.0.156.0 on vista home premium and
> installed Win98se. All ok.
>
> Can run some ancient programs but can not print. VPC does not support
> USB and of course my printer in on a USB port!
>
> Any suggestions as how I might solve this, short of another printer on
> lpt1. Does not have to be real simple as the need for printing is
> minimal. Print to a file and then print file from vista?
>
> Will have to have some way of configuring a printer in the vpc. How?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.

Just have the host share the printer on the network. The guest will see the
printer the same way a physical machine on the network would.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

Checked and printer is set to sharing.

Probably have to load the print driver to the vm.

Will reply with results soon.

Thanks

Gary
"Steve Jain [MVP]" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message
news:...
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:38:43 -0500, "Gary" <>
> wrote:
>
>>installed Microsoft Virtual pc 6.0.156.0 on vista home premium and
>>installed
>>Win98se. All ok.
>>
>>Can run some ancient programs but can not print. VPC does not support USB
>>and of course my printer in on a USB port!
>>
>>Any suggestions as how I might solve this, short of another printer on
>>lpt1.
>>Does not have to be real simple as the need for printing is minimal.
>>Print
>>to a file and then print file from vista?
>>
>>Will have to have some way of configuring a printer in the vpc. How?
>>
>>Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
>>Gary
>
> Use network sharing. Share the printer on Vista, then connect via
> standard Windows sharing with Win98. Of course, you'd need Win98
> drivers for the printer to install in the Win98 VM.
>
> alternately, get a free print to pdf program, use that, print to the
> Win98 desktop, and drag and drop it to Vista and just print from
> Vista.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/

Installed print driver for Epson stylus cx6000 in Virtual win98se and can
print to file but can't figure out how to print the file. Switched back to
Vista home premium and find the file in c:/virtual disk but can't print it.

Any thoughts?

Gary

"Gary" <> wrote in message
news:...
> installed Microsoft Virtual pc 6.0.156.0 on vista home premium and
> installed Win98se. All ok.
>
> Can run some ancient programs but can not print. VPC does not support USB
> and of course my printer in on a USB port!
>
> Any suggestions as how I might solve this, short of another printer on
> lpt1. Does not have to be real simple as the need for printing is minimal.
> Print to a file and then print file from vista?
>
> Will have to have some way of configuring a printer in the vpc. How?
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>
> Gary

"Steve Jain [MVP]" <noreply.-@-.essjae.com> wrote in message
news:...
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:38:43 -0500, "Gary" <>
> wrote:
>
>>installed Microsoft Virtual pc 6.0.156.0 on vista home premium and
>>installed
>>Win98se. All ok.
>>
>>Can run some ancient programs but can not print. VPC does not support USB
>>and of course my printer in on a USB port!
>>
>>Any suggestions as how I might solve this, short of another printer on
>>lpt1.
>>Does not have to be real simple as the need for printing is minimal.
>>Print
>>to a file and then print file from vista?
>>
>>Will have to have some way of configuring a printer in the vpc. How?
>>
>>Thanks for any thoughts.
>>
>>Gary
>
> Use network sharing. Share the printer on Vista, then connect via
> standard Windows sharing with Win98. Of course, you'd need Win98
> drivers for the printer to install in the Win98 VM.
>
> alternately, get a free print to pdf program, use that, print to the
> Win98 desktop, and drag and drop it to Vista and just print from
> Vista.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
Have tried network sharing of the printer but can not access the printer or
vista from the virtual win98. Apparently win98 or virtual win98 cannot
access vista or the printer over the network.

Will try to locate a pdf driver on the net. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Gary

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:39:41 -0500, "Gary" <>
wrote:

>Have tried network sharing of the printer but can not access the printer or
>vista from the virtual win98. Apparently win98 or virtual win98 cannot
>access vista or the printer over the network.
>
>Will try to locate a pdf driver on the net. Any suggestions?
>

CutePDF is a freeware PDF printer.

--

Bo Berglund (Sweden)

"Bo Berglund" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:39:41 -0500, "Gary" <>
> wrote:
>
>>Have tried network sharing of the printer but can not access the printer
>>or
>>vista from the virtual win98. Apparently win98 or virtual win98 cannot
>>access vista or the printer over the network.
>>
>>Will try to locate a pdf driver on the net. Any suggestions?
>>
>
> CutePDF is a freeware PDF printer.

Thanks

Gary

>
> --
>
> Bo Berglund (Sweden)

On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 15:11:16 -0500, "Gary" <>
wrote:

>Installed print driver for Epson stylus cx6000 in Virtual win98se and can
>print to file but can't figure out how to print the file. Switched back to
>Vista home premium and find the file in c:/virtual disk but can't print it.
>
>Any thoughts?

Just found your post.

1. Can you ping the host from the guest? For networked printing to
work, your Win98 guest and Vista host must be in the same workgroup
(or domain). So, check those settings.

2. If you already have printed to a file on the guest, and copied that
file to the host, you do not "print" this file again - it already
contains the necessary control codes for your printer. Instead, you
just copy, or type, that file to the printer (that's how it used to
work in DOS times, ages ago. Haven't used this for decades...) This
would be done from a commandline on your host.

Gary wrote:
> Installed print driver for Epson stylus cx6000 in Virtual win98se and
> can print to file but can't figure out how to print the file. Switched
> back to Vista home premium and find the file in c:/virtual disk but
> can't print it.
>

Just to add to previous post - on host machine try to copy the file to default
printer *in binary* - since file has all control codes for the printer:

copy /b filename.ext PRN

Jan M. Nelken