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

[Michael E. Rentell]

Thanks for that Antonio. I shall try all the suggestions - one of them 
must work.

MikeR

On 05/25/2011 04:34 PM, Antonio Mendoza Mendoza wrote:
> 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
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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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