Sounds like a good idea. I will see if I can figure out how to do that. Thanks.
-Denis On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 7:53 AM Ken Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > Denis, > > How about sharing your host computer's printer that is configured for the > wireless printer and not trying to configure the wireless printer directly > from your virtual machine? > > Ken > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 9:06 PM Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I have a printer connected to a desktop machine via USB. However, my > > laptop connects to that printer via Wireless through the wireless router. > > The laptop host (Ubuntu 20.04) communicates with that printer with no > > issues. (I did nothing specific to make that happen, as well as I can > > recall.) > > Now I want a Windows 2k guest on the laptop to connect to that printer. > > What is the way to do that? > > > > If this sounds familiar, it is an old issue. I was unable to solve the > > issue when I was running an older version of Ubuntu, but I thought I > would > > give it a new go since upgrading to 20.04. My previous method of dealing > > with this was to print to a file, then from the host pass the file to the > > printer. I can still do that, but it would sure be nice if the guest > could > > send directly to the printer. In years gone by it did, but that broke > some > > time ago; I do not recall the circumstances. > > > > Thanks, > > -Denis > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
