VirtualBox problem
Chris Thielen wrote,
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 20:18 +1000, alan duval wrote:
> How does one access a parallel connected printer from WIN XP as
a
> virtual machine?
If you're using (forgive me, I forget the exact name)
"proper" (Bridged)
networking, e.g. where the virtual machine has a real IP on your
network, you could set up printer sharing on the host via Samba and
then
have the virtual machine connect to the host machine's printer share
and print that way.
There may be a more elegant way to do it though.
----------- if the printer is set up in cups (which I think the
graphical Fedora printer setup stuff uses), you can fairly easily add
it to Samba. Somewhat bad instructions:
http://www.computing.net/answers/linux/printer-on-fedora-samba-share/2672... .
Thinking about it, this might be the only solution if USB pass-thru
and parallel pass-thru are not available.
I am using a desktop computer at home and don't have a network. I have
installed VirtualBox so that I can run WIN XP occasionally.
As WIN XP is a virtual machine can it be regarded as on a network?
I have no experience of setting up a network or of setting up Samba so
what would be the best way to go about this?
Alan