On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:20:25 +0100, I wrote:

> Was there a simpler way of recovering from 'no LAN printer' other
> than re-booting the SO's PC after the V'Box session had closed?

  The problem is probably caused by the VBox session grabbing the USB printer,
thus withdrawing it from the host Linux's CUPS interface (which normally allows
PC's on the LAN to see the attached printer as the LAN printer).

In that case, one solution might be to adjust the V'Box guest (WinXP) so that -
instead of grabbing the USB printer, it uses the LAN printer (which happens to
be attached to the PC running this VBox session), thus not disturbing the CUPS
interface.

Has anyone else here come across this problem?

Is there any solution other than installing SAMBA on the Linux host, so that the
WinXP VBox guest can use the LAN printer?

-- 
/\/\aurice 



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