printing to a shared printer from virtual box.

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mick463
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printing to a shared printer from virtual box.

Post by mick463 »

Hey there i am running the latest VB on a macbook pro with snow leopard.On the VB i am running windows server 2008.The problem i am having at the moment is that my macbook shares a printer with a windows 7 computer (win comp is the comp that has the printer attached)and i can not print from the server 2008 that is running in the VB i am running nat and can get everything shares internet just not the printer.Is there something that i missed.
Cheers Mick463.
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Re: printing to a shared printer from virtual box.

Post by Perryg »

Switch to bridged instead of NAT.
mick463
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Re: printing to a shared printer from virtual box.

Post by mick463 »

OOOOhhhh so it is on the same lan it is so obvious thank you.
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