Hi Dennis!!
And I wonder that will have to see a port LPT with a port USB?
better I continue using cups and lpr...hehe

Regards
N=E9stor A. Marchesini

Dennis Crawley escribi=F3:
> Hi,
> It was a sad day yesterday, trying out to connect a Vista laptop to a W98
> Desktop
> with a USB HP Laserjet1020.
>
> I've managed to "see" the printer in the network neighborhood, but it
> refused to install it self, giving a 0x00000866 error (?). It didn't work
> even with the firewall disabled.
>
> After a lot of hours wasted, I did this W 3.11 trick,
> With the HP drivers(*) already installed on LPT3 - Windows loves to fake
> ports -
>
> Open a command console and type:
>
> net use lpt3 \\host\hp
>
> Problem solved.
> I've left a .bat to recapture the printer if the connection to the host is
> lost.
>
> Happy faces all around. I returned home calling names on Billy, in a heavy
> rained noon
>
> Hasta la vista, Billy
> Dennis.
>
> (*)Hp says, "Vista drivers won't be available until July! Give a try with
> XP drivers"
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