VMWare Tools Not Installing ThinPrint Driver

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I'm having an awful time trying to get host machine printers accessible to a Win98 Guest OS; VMWare Tools installation on a Win98 Guest OS just is not giving the option to install a printer driver...  .vmx file is attached at the end of the file for review if needed.

Any ideas?

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Anyone?  Any ideas at all?

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AFAIK Thinprint just does not work with Win98 VMs
or let me put it this way - I have not heard of any success story yet

cant you use the good old fashioned way of sharing a printer via network ?

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That is very helpful to know!  Unfortunately the only reason I need the Win98 VM is for a legacy DOS application that outputs printer data on a parallel port or serial port only.  I was hopeful when I read that ThinPrint uses a serial port on the guest OS that it might pass through printer commands from the DOS application to a printer connected to the host.  I'm not sure if ThinPrint would work this way, but I was willing to try.

Unfortunately Win98 is the latest version of Windows on which my DOS app works, so I think this solution is ruled out for lack of ThinPrint support on the guest (if not for other reasons).  Thank you very much for the answer!