Is it possible to connect a Rainbow Sentinel Parallel Hardware license key on a parallel port on Edgeport/21 Multinterfase and be recognized by a WinNT4 host computer?
Thank you.
For Windows NT we wrote the parallel port driver so it shows up as a LPT port. It’s possible it may work, but I’m not 100% sure because we haven’t tested it.
Hello Jeremy, we bought a Edgeport/21 device and try to connect a HW Key but each time we try to configure the port on the Configuration utility and click on Port (LPT2) the application closes with an error: Edgeport.exe Exception access violation (0xC0000005), Address 0x004081ea.
So parallel port is not detected by the machine.
The Edgeport is accessed through a AnywhereUSB device wich is correctly detected by the machine.
What do you mean the parallel port is not detected? What symptom is suggesting this?
If the parallel port is listed in the Configuration utility, that suggests it’s installed.
Also, for troubleshooting purposes, can you connect the Edgeport/21 directly to the PC, instead of to the AnywhereUSB? I’d like to know if you run into the same problem (or not) in this scenario.
Probably you are right. I’m assuming the parallel port is not detected because the Rainbow Sentinel SuperPro dongle key is not detected, I think it should detect it since the port is mapped to an LPT port in WinNT. The only suggestion that I have to think is not working is because I’m not able to configure the port using the Configuration utility since the problem described above.
And yes the same problem persist on connecting the edge port to directly to the USB port directly to the PC.
The software associated with the dongle could be looking for direct access (via IRQ/memory addresses), which a USB to parallel port can’t provide.
Still, I’ll try to re-create the error message that you reported. What Edgeport driver version are you running?
Also, you’re running NT4, right?
I installed Edgeport 4.20 on a WinNT 4.0 SP6a Workstation. Thank you.
I’m getting the same error (and program crash) as you, when I click the Edgeport’s LPT port in the Edgeport Configuration Utility. Although I can’t explain why that’s happening, I can’t really see a real need to click on that part. If you are looking to configure the port (to change the port number), click on the category of the port just above (“Printer Port”) then click the Configure button and change the number if needed.
In summary:
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If the parallel port is listed in your Edgeport Configuration Utility, which it is, that suggests it’s installed.
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The Edgeport Configuration Utility is crashing on my PC too, so I don’t think the problem is related to defective Edgeport hardware, i.e. the parallel port being defective.
For troubleshooting purposes, if you have a parallel printer, connect it to the Edgeport and try using it. If that works, then we know for sure that the Edgeport parallel port is installed and working.
Jeremy,
More than testing printer on LPT port, I’m looking for make the sentinel key can be accessed by through the edge port LPT, but is seems is not detected by my software app. Thank you.
I understand the issue and do not think it’s possible to resolve it. I think the cause of the issue is that your software app is “looking” for the sentinel key a certain way, perhaps via IRQ/memory addresses like I mentioned, which an Edgeport’s LPT port can’t provide.
About testing a printer, the only purpose of that suggestion was for troubleshooting purposes. Specifically, if you can successfully use a printer with the LPT port, then we know for sure that the Edgeport’s LPT port is installed and functional.