Chris Thielen wrote, On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 20:18 +1000, alan duval wrote: > > How does one access a parallel connected printer from WIN XP as a > > virtual machine? > If you're using (forgive me, I forget the exact name) > "proper" (Bridged) > networking, e.g. where the virtual machine has a real IP on your > network, you could set up printer sharing on the host via Samba and > then > have the virtual machine connect to the host machine's printer share > and print that way. > There may be a more elegant way to do it though. > ----------- if the printer is set up in cups (which I think the > graphical Fedora printer setup stuff uses), you can fairly easily add > it to Samba. Somewhat bad instructions: http://www.computing.net/answers/linux/printer-on-fedora-samba-share/26724.html . > Thinking about it, this might be the only solution if USB pass-thru > and parallel pass-thru are not available. I am using a desktop computer at home and don't have a network. I have installed VirtualBox so that I can run WIN XP occasionally. As WIN XP is a virtual machine can it be regarded as on a network? I have no experience of setting up a network or of setting up Samba so what would be the best way to go about this? Alan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
