Workstation User’s Manual
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3Ifthelpmoduleisloaded,runthefollowingcommandasroottoremoveit:
rmmod lp
4Toverifythatthelinereferringtothelpmoduleinthe/etc/modules.confor
/etc/conf.modulesfileisremovedorcommentedout,insertapoundsign(#)at
thebeginningoftheline.
ThenameoftheconfigurationfiledependsontheLinuxdistributionyouare
using.Whenyourebootthehostaf
terremovingthisline,theconfigurationfileno
longerstartsthelpmodule.
5Toensurethatthepropermodulesfortheparallelportareloadedatboottime,add
thefollowinglinetothe/etc/modules.confor/etc/conf.modulesfile:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Configure Device Permissions for Parallel Ports
SomeLinuxdistributionsbydefaultdonotgrantthevirtualmachineaccesstothelp
andparportdevices.YoumustaddtheVMwareusertothegroupthathaspermission
toaccessthesedevices.
To configure device permissions for parallel ports
1Runthefollowingcommandtodeterminetheownerandgroupforthedevice:
ls –la /dev/parport0
Thethirdandfourthcolumnsoftheoutputshowtheownerandgroup,
respectively.Inmostcases,theownerofthedeviceisrootandtheassociated
groupislp.
2Toaddtheusertothedevicegroup,becometherootuserandopenthe
/etc/groupfilewithatexteditor.
3O
nthelinestartingwithlp,whichdefinesthelpgroup,addtheWorkstation
user’susername.
Thefollowinglineprovidesanexampleforauserwhoseusernameisuserj.
lp::7:daemon,lp,userj
Thenexttimetheuserlogsontothehost,thechangestakeeffect.
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