In message <[email protected]>, Peter writes: >I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04. I installed the version of Virtual >box which came with the distribution ( version 5.0.24). I then restored >the virtual machine from my backups of the Linux home directory. While I >was able to open the virtual machine I could not access the printers or >scanners. The failure differed according to which printer or scanner I >tried to access. >Previously in 14.04 I was able to scan and print documents from within >the VirtualBox. > >Now , while the settings for the virtual machine show the usb ports and >the scanners and printer connected to them, the scanner does not appear >in the windows scanner part of control panel. The printers do, but all >attempts to print fail on all three printer.
Did your Ubuntu upgrade wipe your vboxusers entry in /etc/groups? <URL::https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html#install-linux-host> Does Oracle's 5.0.26 package work? <URL:http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.26/> John [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
