Dennis, I have another question: Do you need to connect to your windows VM from the host or another computer/phone on the network?
I am thinking that it maybe easier to provide a guide how to configure you vBox network rather than to debug your issue - over this mailing list. If I would to provide guidance on fresh network configuration for unsupported and unpatched windows - I would probably suggest simple NAT setup as it provides little more isolation for you windows. If you need to directly connect to your windows from the host or the network then bridging setup would be more appropriate. Depending on your answer, there are pretty good guides available. Please see if you could follow one of them. The networking in vBox is pretty well described in: http://virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html Depending on your need (NAT or Bridge) try to follow the appropriate section of this tutorial: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-network-sharing.html Note: The tutorial uses host IP examples in 192.168.x.x You on the other hand use 10.0.0.x - that is OK - keep your host network settings - do not get confused about it when following the tutorial. If you choose NAT then you host and windows guest IPs should be on different networks. If you choose Bridging, your internet router should assign IP to your windows guest in the same 10.0.0.x range. In both instances, you will be connecting to your 10.0.0.244 printer. Please note that the printer's IP might change occasionally by your router, unless configured as static. As already mentioned, I would disable all other networking stuff such as internet/HP/cloud printing on the printer. I hope it helps, for anything else go to PLUG clinic on the right Sunday. Tomas On Oct 10, 2017 7:19 AM, "King Beowulf" <kingbeow...@gmail.com> wrote: On 10/09/2017 03:14 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Progress. I got the ip address of the printer from settings/network in the > host, pinged it from the host, then pinged it from win2k. Both were > successful. But then I found out that the host could not connect to the > router/modem until I shut down win2k in VB! So it appears that either the > host is connected to the router/modem or it is connected to the printer. > This is not the usual way the host connects to the printer, as I am able to > print without losing my internet connection. The address was > 192.168.223.100. I need to get rid of this direct connection to the > printer. Then how do I get the (proper) ip address for the printer? > --- snip--- As Tomas mentioned, this sounds like something screwy with the host-guest bridging setup in that when VB+Win2K fires up, the guest has sole ownership of the NIC. Thus, the laptop host goes "dark". you said (?)the printer is on wifi and uses DHCP (not fixed IP). The printer IP address is from the wifi router and has nothing to do with either host or guest OS. You can get the Printer IP by using the printer front panel to print a Network status page, or log in to the router web GUI (http://10.0.0.1) to see what IP is assigned. Some printers can advertise over wifi for direct connection. You will want to turn that off inside the printer configuration settings. Either page through the printer front panel or use the printer web GUI (http://10.0.0.244) -Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
