RE: I can not print with my network printer

[Ben Armstrong]

> So I guess the mailing list "General questions regarding Samba" would be
> the right one?

correct

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Re: I can not print with my network printer

[serando]

Thank you Ben for your hint.

Sorry. Yes I have then misunderstood "Samba for the VMS operating 
system". I thought that this means "Samba together with Virtual Machine 
Systems".

Sorry.

So I guess the mailing list "General questions regarding Samba" would be 
the right one?





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RE: I can not print with my network printer

[Ben Armstrong]

Serando,

You seem to have misread (or missed entirely) the purpose of this mailing list, 
which is:

General discussion between people interested in using or developing 
Samba on hp's VMS operating system.

You seem to have a problem involving Samba and VMs, not VMS (aka OpenVMS; see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS ), an entirely different topic. I'm 
afraid we can't help you here with that.

Ben


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I can not print with my network printer

[serando]

Hello,

I have a desktop PC with MX Linux 64bit (Debian 10 based). My printer is 
connected via usb cable with this PC.

On this PC I run also virtualbox with a "windows 7" VM (32bit).

My goal:
-
When my "windows 7 VM" is running, I want to use the printer from Linux.


What I have done:
---
SAMBA:
Here are my SAMBA settings. (Please click the link. It will lead you to 
a gif- animation):

--> https://abload.de/image.php?img=sambaeinstellungenh0j5f.gif

VirtualBox:
-Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager-> File-> host-only network manager-> create
-activated DHCP-Server
-Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager-> Machine-> change-> network-> Tab adapter 
1-> activate host-only adapter




There are 3 issues:
--

Issue 1: I start the windows 7 VM. I start the file manager. I click the 
"network" folder. So sometimes I have under "network" a folder that 
contains all the printers from the host (and also the PDF folder). 
Sometimes I have both not. So I then restart the VM and when I have 
luck, then I have them after the restart. So sometimes I have them, but 
sometimes not.


Issue 2: I start the VM. I start the file manager. I click the "network" 
folder. I make sure that the printers and the PDF folder appear there. I 
click the "PDF" folder. I try to rename one of the files in the PDF folder.
Message: \Mx\pdf could not be accessed. You do not have permission to 
access \Mx\pdf. Contact the network administrator to request access.


Issue 3: I start the VM. I start the file manager. I click the "network" 
folder. I make sure that the printers appear there.
I open "Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers" and press 
the button "add printer". After: "Add network printer". This way I get a 
list with all my printers from the host. I select the one I want. 
Message: No driver found. So: I'll grab the driver from the CD. I now 
have the printer in windows 7. For example also in Wordpad. So it looks 
all is how it should be. But now, I open Wordpad select this new printer 
and try to print. But the print get stuck in the windows print-queue:

-> see -> https://abload.de/image.php?img=warteschlangewindowsgdnjqk.jpg
Nothing goes out to the host. It does not print:


Question:
What am I doing wrong?

Would appreciate some help.
Thank you.




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