Hi Peter, That is interesting. I didn't think you needed USB activated on the VM to use the VM printer port (or a Bonjour printer). From your description, it sounds like you added the printer as a USB printer directly connected to the virtual machine.
I've never tried that but I understood that it had the disadvantage that the USB port must be allocated to either the VM or to OSX - it can't be shared (though it can be switched between the two). Is there any particular reason you used this approach - other than the obvious one of IT WORKED! I guess what I really mean was: Is there a reason that the more usual Parallels shared printer approach (our Bonjour approach) couldn't be used - is it because it is a multi-function device (rather than a simple printer) Cheers Neil (still learning!) -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 8:14 AM, Peter Hinchliffe at hinch...@multiline.com.au wrote: > > > On 01/02/2010, at 7:45 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > >> (following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these >> checks over the phone) >> >> Hi Graeme, >> >> To sum up what we found - together with a couple of thoughts I've had since: >> >> 1) Printer Set-up in OSX: >> - we have confirmed that your printer is set-up and showing in the "Print & >> Fax" preference pane with "green light" as Idle, Default >> - we have confirmed that printer sharing is turned on on your Mac and that >> your HP 380 is showing up as a shared printer with status "Everyone can >> print" >> - we have checked your firewall setting - which is currently "off" (you may >> want to change this later - but at present it means that your current >> problem is not down to the OSX firewall. >> >> >> 2) Adding the printer under windows: >> >> - The bonjour printer wizard runs but under the "Browse for Bonjour >> Printers" there are no printers showing up. >> - When we checked the configuration of your Virtual machine we found that >> you had got "Network adapter 1" installed and shown as connected but with >> type "Bridged ethernet", compared to my setup which is type "Shared >> Networking" >> > > > Just to put this to bed.. > > I went to Graeme's place last night on his request following a contribution I > had made to this thread. The solution was annoyingly simple, although not > immediately obvious: although the USB service was turned on, no actual USB > device had been activated. I deleted the HP Printer from his Printers list in > Windows, then activated the HP Printer from Parallels' USB Menu. Windows > instantly sprang to life, announcing the detection of New Hardware (etc, etc) > and the Parallels connection was made. > > The only glitch was where Windows insisted that we locate a particular .dll > file (perhaps a legacy of the Windows drivers having been installed), but once > we got through that the HP Printer reappeared in the Printer List, but this > time it was the shared version. Graeme is printing just fine from Windows now. > > -- > > Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services > FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer > Perth, Western Australia > Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
