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Hello,

I have moved from Ubuntu/Windows dual boot system to a VirtualBox 4.2.18 installed on Ubuntu 13.04 host with one Windows 7 VM only.
Extensions pack and guest additions are installed.

The problem is I cannot print from Windows VM to the printer (OKI C3200) via USB filtering. Everytime I try to print a test page, Windows says:

"could not connect printer to USB port" retry/cancel.

I did the USB filtering for the on VM settings, enabled USB 2.0 (EHCI) controller, made sure that the printer is captured by the guest through Host+Home -> Devices -> USB.
The user I run VirtualBox with, is in the vboxusers group (I logged off and logged on, rebooted ubuntu, restarted the VM) I googled a lot with no luck. I deleted the printer in windows and added again. The printer used to work fine with native Windows 7. And it works OK with the ubuntu host. However, I'd like to make it attached to windows as I do most of printing under Windows and more importantly, the software monitoring the status of the printer is only available under Windows. I even tried share the printer by getting the host control it with CUBS and Windows access it thru IPP. Unfortunately the status monitor does not work with that.

What am I missing getting this printer work under the guest?

I've been working on this last few days without progress. I'd really appreciate any help.

Post the guests log file (as an attachment)
See Online Users Manual for the location of the file.

As well as

From the hosts terminal type VBoxManage showvminfo <VM Name> --details and post here. Replace <VM Name> with the actual name of the VM. Use " " if the name has a space in it.

Perryg thanks for trying to help.

I managed to solve the problem: 'could not connect to USB port' message was totally misleading. It had nothing to do with the accessability of the USB port for the printer.

Whenever I tried to print a test page, it was going to the printer as 'letter' size while the printer had A4 papers in it. That was it!! The moment I changed the printer setting to A4 letter, it started working without a glitch.

I should have suspected of the misleading error message after reading earlier a post in another forum where the problem with the same error message was solved after an empty toner was replaced in an OKI printer.

Anyway, thanks again..

Umit