(k)ubuntu: howto prevent lp module from loading at boot?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:20:05PM -0500, Herb Richter wrote:
> The other user is vmware->winXP.  According to vmware, if I remember
> correctly, lp does not report its settings (or parameters) correctly so
> that vmware cannot share the port.  ...and the usb port connections are
> somewhat flaky.
> 
> On this particular workstation, we must have the printer available to
> both firefox etc and winXP/wordperfect at the same time and it *must* be
> point and click.
> 
> What seems to be working well so far, is connecting the printer with
> both parallel and usb cables*1 and "reserving" the usb port for the
> Linux host and the lpt port for the guest o/s winXP.

Or you configure the printer with cupsys on linux, and then share it
using samba with the windows guest over the "network". :)  That's what I
would do.

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