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fail to setting up a printer in VBox 2.0.6

Posted: 13. Mar 2009, 22:33
by htamayo
Hi, I'm using Vbox on Debian Lenny, all my guest OS's work ok, but I have a problem with Windows XP Home Edition, I have to print to a hp printer installed on other pc-windows xp pro sp2- across the network; I can print ok to it using debian via samba, but with my Windows Home Edition guest OS if I want to print to it every session I have to reconfigure it in my guest OS, it seems like if the permission to print to it is lost every time I shut down this VM.

I'm using a valid credential, in fact, I use an account that exist in the Windows XP Pro, so this user is valid.

My question is, what should I tweak for keep this handshake alive and print everytime I turn on the VM? I've already checked in my samba.conf and from Debian I don't have this problem

Regads

Re: fail to setting up a printer in VBox 2.0.6

Posted: 13. Mar 2009, 23:34
by vbox4me2
Silly question, you didn't use immutable did you?

Re: fail to setting up a printer in VBox 2.0.6

Posted: 13. Mar 2009, 23:50
by htamayo
No, I didn't

Re: fail to setting up a printer in VBox 2.0.6

Posted: 14. Mar 2009, 00:00
by vbox4me2
Did you install the printer by browsing the LAN and that way adding it to your profile?
If so, install the printer/drivers locally to LPT1, after finishing that go back to the config page and add a tcp/ip port with the settings you need for that remote printer.