lock wish
Consider yourself lucky if you aren't using a networked printer. Networks
often require you to redirect your parallel ports in order to share another
computer's printer. When the software looks for the hardware lock, guess what?
It gets lost. The 3D Studio doccumentation suggests that you only run
3D Studio when the network is not running. GREAT IDEA!! Just work when no one
else is.
That is surprising. We run CorStream Server (Lantastic & Novell) and all 3
parallel ports are redirected to a HP 650C, a HP LaserJet IV, and a QMS
PostScript. I have 11 (count 'em) hardware locks hanging off LPT1, and haven't
had any problems with any of them. I believe that 3D Studio makes it's calls
for the lock at an address level, not just LPT1, (like AutoCAD does), so will
always find it.