On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 10:45:15PM +0200, Freek de Kruijf wrote: > Op zondag 05 april 2009 19:29:53 schreef Chris G: > > I have a networked HP printer which is used by both my Linux host and > > a Windows XP guest. I'm seeing a print fault on the Windows guest > > which I *think* is probably caused by the printer being unable to > > 'talk back' to the guest machine. > > By networked HP printer you mean that the printer has a UTP connection with > your network? and has its own IP-address.
Yes, that's right, the printer has its own Cat5 connector. > If that is the case, then if you use NAT to connect the guest to the network > you may be right. If you change NAT to Host interface it will probably work. > Yes, thanks, changing to Host Interface has fixed my problem, I think the printer was failing to handshake properly with the Windows XP guest and chunks of the printout went missing. What surprises me is that this isn't almost a FAQ and that I couldn't find any reference to the problem with Google searches. In addition HP support were worse than useless too! > > Is there any way to set up the networking so that the printer (on my > > 192.168.1.x LAN) can see the Windows guest machine? > > -- > fr.gr. > > Freek de Kruijf > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
