Printing from VM

[alan duval]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:14 AM, Alan Duval<amoht at westnet.com.au> wrote:

> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Alan Duval<amoht at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>   
>>> >>>
>>>       
>>>> >>> > I have installed Puppy Linux in a VM in VirtualBox and added my printer
>>>> >>> > but when I try to access the printer nothing happens. The same happens
>>>> >>> > with WIN XP installed in VirtualBox. How does one access the printer
>>>> >>> > from VirtualBox?
>>>>         
>>> >>>
>>>       
>> >>
>> >> The printer needs to be shared on the host machine.
>>     

>> >> What do I have to do to get my printer to be shared on the host machine?
>>     
> >
> > Assuming that the host is Ubuntu and you are in Gnome:
> > System->Admin->Printing. ?Click on the printer, then check the menu
> > item Printer->Shared.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > I followed the above advice and found that Shared is checked already so
> > seems to be a problem in VM.
>   

Just out of curiosity, what does 'smbclient -L localhost' return on
the host?  (just hit 'enter' when prompted for a password).

Chris

It returns the following:

Error connecting to 127.0.0.1 (Connection refused)
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)

Alan