wine users - Jan 2010 - Xeltek SuperPro III Programer

Hi,

I've a PC with Ubuntu 9.10 and a parallel port Xeltek SuperPro III Programer
for work. The software SP3 runs under Wine but it can?t communicate with the
programer through the port. How I can open the port? I supose that is a dumb
question, but I?m a novice in Linux.

Thanks in advance.

On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 07:57 -0600, mrossi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've a PC with Ubuntu 9.10 and a parallel port Xeltek SuperPro III
> Programer for work. The software SP3 runs under Wine but it cant
> communicate with the programer through the port. How I can open the
> port? I supose that is a dumb question, but Im a novice in Linux.  
> 
Check the access permissions on the parallel ports:  

	ls -l /dev/lp*

If Ubuntu is like Fedora, only root and the lp group have access to
parallel ports. There are two  things you can do. Pick either:

1) add the user where you run WINE to the lp group
2) add the command line 
	chmod uga+rw /dev/lp*" 
   to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local system script. You'll have to be root
   to do that. Doing this will give all users read and write access
   to all parallel ports each time you boot the system.

I'd suggest you try (1) first, since is less drastic than (2).

Martin

Martin, thanks for your answer.

I try ls -l /dev/lp*:

crw-rw----1 root lp6,  0    /dev/lp0

The first option I don?t know how I can do that. I don?t know if lp group exist.
How I can find the WINE user?

I try the second adding 
chmod uga+rw /dev/lp0 to the /etc/rc.local
(/etc/rc.d not exist). 
Reboot. 
I try again ls -l /dev/lp*:

crw-rw-rw-1 root lp6,  0    /dev/lp0

and nothing, the SP3 software can?t access the parallel port


Thank you very much.

http://www.winehq.org/docs/wineusr-guide/misc-things-to-configure#AEN407

Thanks dimesio, this was the first option I been try.