Thanks for tip, Marc. I got it working. At the first step in the Add Printer Wizard I had to select 'Local Printer' 'Add A New Port' 'Standard TCP/IP Port'
That brought up another wizard for an Internet Printer, which did the trick. Mark Marc Beck wrote: > I had the same issue. I solved it by configuring manually the IP port. The > settings will be depending on the print server (1 or multiple ports) or the > printer. In XP go to Printers and Faxes, and check the properties of the > printer. The printer should NOT be shared. Check the printer port address. > In my case, I have a 2 port print server, printer IP address 192.168.0.102 > (in your case 192.168.0.101), LPR queue name L1 or L2 for each printer. > This document might help: http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/dsss/docs/print-lpr.shtml > > Marc > www.Amazingcomputing.biz > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Young > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:13 AM > To: [email protected]. > Subject: [vbox-users] Installing Network Printer in XP guest on Ubuntu Host > > I'm trying to get a network printer working, and can't seem to get the > last step to work. The printer works fine for the host. > > Virtualbox 1.6.6 Ubuntu 8.04 Host & XP Pro guest > ------------- > In XP > Add Printer Wizard > Connect to a printer on the internet or on a home or office network. > > URL http://192.168.0.101:9100/printers/BrotherHL-2070N > > ...This will cause the printer output: > > POST /printer/BrotherHL-2070N HTTP/1.1 > Content-Type: application/ipp > User-AGent: Internet Print Provider > Host: 192.168.0.101:9100 > Content-Length: 141 > Connection: Keep-Alive > Cache-Control: no-cache > > But then the wizard reports that it can't find the printer. > -------------- > > Below is some sys data I collected trying to get this to work, although > I don't know if any of this applies. > > Any help to get this working would be much appreciated. It will save my > college student daughter a long trip to complete a simple homework > assignment. > > > Thanks > Mark > > --------------- > > http://localhost:631/printers/ > --yields-- > BrotherHL-2070N (Default Printer) > Description: Brother HL-2070N > Location: dualpent > Printer Driver: Brother HL-2060 Foomatic/hl1250 (recommended) > Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published. > Device URI: socket://192.168.0.101:9100 > ------------------ > mtyo...@dualpent:~$ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:d0:5a:ac:12 > inet addr:192.168.0.104 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::21f:d0ff:fe5a:ac12/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:13481 errors:0 dropped:21345283454 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:6694 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:8539077 (8.1 MB) TX bytes:959035 (936.5 KB) > Interrupt:253 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:4083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:4083 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:301382 (294.3 KB) TX bytes:301382 (294.3 KB) > > mtyo...@dualpent:~$ > > -- Pentium Dual Core E2200 2.2GHz ~ GigaByte GA-EG31M-S2 ~ 4GB DDR2 800 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
