Although I have access to true network printing resources, for the local
printer attached to my local workstation, I do *NOT* want to make my
printer accessible over the physical LAN to anyone. I also do not in
general need the MS Win XP guest to print to our true network printing
resource that is limited to specialized work my ordinary black toner
laser printer cannot properly handle. However, if I can use the
internal vboxnet0 "interface" and IP address for printing, this scheme
will work, and as well as Samba (presumably I can deactivate Samba in
this case as Virtualbox shared folders provide access to the file system
of the Linux host).
What specifics cover exporting the local printer, still accessible as as
local printer over a physical printer connection (presently, a USB
port), over the logical vboxnet0 interface? Does the Virtualbox
"machine" then connect to the IP address of vboxnet0 displayed by the
Linux host command ifconfig -a ? A URL with the specifics will suffice.
On 06/29/2011 03:51 PM, JR van Rensburg wrote:
It's easier to set up a tcp/ip printer to the cups server.
Add a network printer> http printer in winXP for the correct ipaddress
and use port 631 (for cups print server).
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:37 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
Is anyone using Virtualbox 4 on a SL 6 x86-64 host running a MS Win
XP
Pro guest (presumably IA-32)?
If so, has anyone successfully gotten MS Win to recognize a local
printer attached (and working under CUPS) to the SL 6 host to print to
it?
I am trying to get Samba running on SL 6 to do this; it worked fine
under VMware Workstation on RHEL 5 (CentOS 5). I have installed two
virtual NICs under VirtualBox, one configured NAT, the other host
only
adapter, and have checked for the IPv4 addresses assigned to both the
SL
6 side (vboxnet0) as well as on the MS Win side (via ipconfig under
the
command prompt window). I can ping from the MS Win side to both the
MS
Win host only IP address and to the SL 6 host only IP address, and
can
ping from the SL 6 side to the SL 6 host only address but not the MS
Win
host only address.
