Printer Problem

[Peter]

So far as I can tell the setup for ubuntu is the same for both laptop. 
On both laptops Ubuntu can see my USB scanner. The usb settins for the 
virtual machines look the same on both laptops.

If the usb ports had been assigned to the virtual machine on the T400 
then I do not understand how ubuntu can see the usb scanner. It doe not 
make any difference whether the virtual machine is running or not.

I have removed and reinstalled the cups printer system on the T400 but 
it makes no difference.

Cups version  is 1.5.7 on bi]oth laptops.

Regards


Peter Goggin

On 23/01/17 17:35, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>> I have a lenovo t400 laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 installed. I am running
>> a virtual box with windows XP installed. I can see and use all of my
>> usb printers in the windows machine. None of them show in the basic
>> ubuntu system.  I have cups installed.
>>
>> I have a lenovo X61s laptop and the printers are availbale in both
>> ubuntu and windows virtual machine.
> If you have a USB device attached to the virtual machine, it is no
> longer available for the host. Therefore I would guess, that the USB
> printers are assinged to the XP virtual machine of the t400. On the
> x61s the printers are not assinged to the VM and therefore they are
> usable to the host while they are also visible to the VM because they
> are shared over the network.
>
>
> Nils
>
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