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Grogster

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Posted: 01:03am 11 Aug 2019

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Today's experiment, is trying to get the XP VM to talk to the printers I have installed in Linux.

Both my local and network printers are setup in Linux, and I have printed to both of them via Linux Mint, so that is all working fine, but I cannot work out how to get the VM to talk to them - XP just flatly refuses to see either one.

According to the net and the research I have done thus far, you treat the printers in Linux as normal networked printers as far as looking for them in the VM is concerned - just so long as they are shared, but I must be missing something, cos the XP VM won't see anything, even though both printers ARE shared.

Here is my Linux Mint printer setup:

What is NOT shown in this image, is the drop-down(right-click) menu for each printer, which both have the tick in the SHARED and ENABLED check-boxes. Note that I have enabled publishing the shared printers so that they SHOULD be discoverable by other machines on the network.

Here is my VirtualBox network settings:

With these settings, I can access the shared folder via the XP VM back to the Linux folder for exchanging files etc - that is working fine, so the network is working.

The XP VM sees nothing. All I ever get when I search for network printers, is this:

Stuck now, as I figured that these settings SHOULD allow the XP VM to see the shared network printers.....

I tried booting another full-install SP3 XP VM, but it won't see anything either, so there must still be something else I need to do to get things to talk.

Do any of the Linux guru's here have any pointers on what I could try next?

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