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

Wed May 25 15:45:50 UTC 2011

Hi.
Sorry to e-mail you on your address, but for some odd reason I can't post in the KLUG.
Are you running Windows XP or later?
You probably will need to install the printer drivers for Windows (in the VirtualBox), installing the printer as local. Then reconfigure the connection as networked one.

Good luck
Antonio

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De: Michael E. Rentell <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>
Para: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Enviado: miércoles 25 de Mayo de 2011 11:57
Asunto: [Klug-general] Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity and then VirtualBox printing

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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