Printing from VM

[Derek Broughton]

Tim Frost wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:36 -0500, Chris Mohler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 7:34 AM, alan duval<amoht at westnet.com.au> wrote:
>> > Hi Chris,
>> >
>> > Sorry for sending this to you direct but I posted this answer to your
>> > query in the ubuntu-users digest and no one else has commented.
>> 
>> No problem.
>> 
>> > On checking I don't have Samba installed. Is it required for VirtualBox
>> > to access the printer?
>> 
>> I'm not sure - my VM is XP, so it is required for my setup.  I would
>> assume that a linux host would default something like IPP, but again
>> I'm not sure. (telnet localhost 631?)
> 
> By default, the IPP server only listens on the loopback address:
> tim at zaphod:~$ netstat -nta | grep 631
> tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:631           0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN
> tcp6       0      0 ::1:631                 :::*
> LISTEN
> 

Not what I get:
$ netstat -nta | grep 631
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:631             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
tcp6       0      0 :::631                  :::*                    LISTEN

Since I haven't edited any configuration directly, I'd have to guess it's as 
simple as setting "Share published printers connected to this system" and 
"Allow printing from the Internet" on http://localhost:631/admin (certainly 
before setting both of these, I couldn't access the printer from the VM 
client).
-- 
derek