can i share a printer port over the net?

12 Jun 2009 6:22 PM

good2bealive

I'm using a program to flash memory on a cellular handset. However, this
program requires a dongle to be attached to the PC lpt1 port.

The problem is we have a satellite employee in another county who needs to
flash a handset. We can send him the software, however are unable to send him
the dongle, and he needs it sooner than it can be shipped anyway.

Is there a way to let his PC "map" his printer port to mine? we're using
winxp.

12 Jun 2009 7:49 PM

David B.

Possibly, but it likely won't solve the problem as the hardware dongle still
isn't present on his system.

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"good2bealive" <good2beal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm using a program to flash memory on a cellular handset. However, this
> program requires a dongle to be attached to the PC lpt1 port.
>
> The problem is we have a satellite employee in another county who needs to
> flash a handset. We can send him the software, however are unable to send
> him
> the dongle, and he needs it sooner than it can be shipped anyway.
>
> Is there a way to let his PC "map" his printer port to mine? we're using
> winxp.
>

12 Jun 2009 8:51 PM

smlunatick

On Jun 12, 7:22 pm, good2bealive
<good2beal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I'm using a program to flash memory on a cellular handset. However, this
> program requires a dongle to be attached to the PC lpt1 port.
>
> The problem is we have a satellite employee in another county who needs to
> flash a handset. We can send him the software, however are unable to send him
> the dongle, and he needs it sooner than it can be shipped anyway.
>
> Is there a way to let his PC "map" his printer port to mine? we're using
> winxp.

How does the cell phone connect in order to "flash" the unit? The
LPT1 security dongle is only device connected to this LPT port for the
flash?

12 Jun 2009 9:49 PM

good2bealive

hey thanks for responding!

the cell phone connects to the pc using a usb to serial cable from lg. when
the software is run all the updates occur through this connection. the only
thing the parallel port dongle is used for is the license to run the
software.

to david,
just to clarify, could you explain why it wouldn't work? i don't know the
internals of an OS, but it seems like if a program requested information from
a parallel port, the os/kernel could redirect that request to another
parallel port over a tcp/ip socket...is that not possible?

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"smlunatick" wrote:

> On Jun 12, 7:22 pm, good2bealive
> <good2beal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I'm using a program to flash memory on a cellular handset. However, this
> > program requires a dongle to be attached to the PC lpt1 port.
> >
> > The problem is we have a satellite employee in another county who needs to
> > flash a handset. We can send him the software, however are unable to send him
> > the dongle, and he needs it sooner than it can be shipped anyway.
> >
> > Is there a way to let his PC "map" his printer port to mine? we're using
> > winxp.
>
> How does the cell phone connect in order to "flash" the unit? The
> LPT1 security dongle is only device connected to this LPT port for the
> flash?
>
>

13 Jun 2009 9:42 AM

Richard G. Harper

It won't work because the software that uses these types of devices
(security dongles) uses hardware function calls to verify the presence of
the device. Network redirection is done via software. So the software will
look at the hardware port, find nothing, and fail.

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"good2bealive" <good2beal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> hey thanks for responding!
>
> the cell phone connects to the pc using a usb to serial cable from lg.
> when
> the software is run all the updates occur through this connection. the
> only
> thing the parallel port dongle is used for is the license to run the
> software.
>
> to david,
> just to clarify, could you explain why it wouldn't work? i don't know the
> internals of an OS, but it seems like if a program requested information
> from
> a parallel port, the os/kernel could redirect that request to another
> parallel port over a tcp/ip socket...is that not possible?
>
> "smlunatick" wrote:
>
>> On Jun 12, 7:22 pm, good2bealive
>> <good2beal***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> > I'm using a program to flash memory on a cellular handset. However,
>> > this
>> > program requires a dongle to be attached to the PC lpt1 port.
>> >
>> > The problem is we have a satellite employee in another county who needs
>> > to
>> > flash a handset. We can send him the software, however are unable to
>> > send him
>> > the dongle, and he needs it sooner than it can be shipped anyway.
>> >
>> > Is there a way to let his PC "map" his printer port to mine? we're
>> > using
>> > winxp.
>>
>> How does the cell phone connect in order to "flash" the unit? The
>> LPT1 security dongle is only device connected to this LPT port for the
>> flash?
>>
>>