turning off printing or parallel port

[Chris Aitken]

I was printing OK from W98 VMware vm.

Then I installed CUPS and can print from linux host.

Now I can't print from the W98 vm. I don't know how to free up the
parallel port in linux so I can print from the W98 vm. I tried
/sbin/service cups stop and get

[lsf-5jgDBJOV2nY at public.gmane.org lsf]$ /sbin/service cups stop
Stopping cups:                                             [FAILED]

I tried /sbin/service cups stop and get

[lsf-5jgDBJOV2nY at public.gmane.org lsf]$ /sbin/service lpd stop
Stopping lpd:                                              [FAILED]

How can I suspend linux printing or close the parallel port or whatever
so I can print from the vm?

Chris

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