[Klug-general] Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity and then VirtualBox printing

David Halliday david.halliday at gmail.com
Wed May 25 11:23:31 UTC 2011


What sort of network configuration do you have on the VM?
NAT or Bridged

Sometimes using NAT confuses incoming connections.

Is the printer on a wireless part of the network? I have found that
including wireless jumps to get to printers can make the networking a
complete headache.



On 25 May 2011 11:57, Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> Good morning all,
>
> I took the plunge and installed Ubuntu 11.04 under Unity. Bit of a steep
> learning curve but very interesting. Everything seems to have been installed
> OK.
>
> My one big need is VirtualBox to run my Sage accounts under windoze. That
> also installed OK but the existing printer links don't work as they did when
> the Linux was PCLOS. I used to have the printer under PCLOS/VB/windoze as a
> network printer with the address as:
>
> http://192.168.2.2:631/printers/EpsonRX520 and it worked fine.
>
> I've checked under Unity and the printer still has that name and the
> properties show that it is ticked as 'shared' but the VB/Windows doesn't
> find it. So I uninstalled it and tried again with no luck
>
> Am I doing something silly here? Is there a different form of address under
> Unity/Gnome. I have no experience of the latter as previously the systems
> was KDE.
>
> Any suggestions gratefully received.
>
> MikeR
> in Folkestone
>
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