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

[David Halliday]

NAT = Network Address Translation
There is a translation of IP addresses (the phone numbers computers use to
connect to each other) managed by the VM software, this can cause problems
when you try to communicate with other devices on the network.

Easy thing to try is to change this to 'bridged' where the VM software then
makes the virtual machine more independent. Advantage of this is that the
translation does not occur making the network stuff more transparent. NAT on
the other hand is easier to configure for setting up the VM.

Once the configuration is changed restart the VM. it might then see the
shared printer easily.

How is your internet configured? is it managed by a router of some sort
using DHCP of is the internet connected directly to the host computer?


On 25 May 2011 12:26, Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>wrote:

>  Those are the sort of questions I should have covered first. I am using
> the very simplest of self-setup so the VirtualBox has found its own
> connection to my PC and the startup box says it is NAT (whatever that means
> - I'm not very clued-up - just a satisfied Linux user).
>
> The printer is one of two, the other is an Okipage 14ex laser page printer.
> Both are plugged into USB sockets on the desktop Linux PC and Ubuntu just
> found them and installed them. I've checked their names in the printer setup
> dialogue and used those names in the Windows dialogue. What's so irritating
> is that under PCLOS it 'just worked'.
>
> Any ideas you might have would be very welcome - thanks in advance.
>
> MikeR
>
> On 25/05/11 12:12, David Halliday wrote:
>
> 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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