Although I have access to true network printing resources, for the local 
printer attached to my local workstation, I do *NOT* want to make my 
printer accessible over the physical LAN to anyone.  I also do not in 
general need the MS Win XP guest to print to our true network printing 
resource that is limited to specialized work my ordinary black toner 
laser printer cannot properly handle.  However, if I can use the 
internal vboxnet0 "interface" and IP address for printing, this scheme 
will work, and as well as Samba (presumably I can deactivate Samba in 
this case as Virtualbox shared folders provide access to the file system 
of the Linux host).

What specifics cover exporting the local printer, still accessible as as 
local printer over a physical printer connection (presently, a USB 
port), over the logical vboxnet0 interface?  Does the Virtualbox 
"machine" then connect to the IP address of vboxnet0 displayed by the 
Linux host command ifconfig -a ?  A URL with the specifics will suffice.


On 06/29/2011 03:51 PM, JR van Rensburg wrote:
> It's easier to set up a tcp/ip printer to the cups server.
> Add a network printer>  http printer in winXP for the correct ipaddress
> and use port 631 (for cups print server).
>
> On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 15:37 -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
>> Is anyone using Virtualbox 4 on a SL 6 x86-64 host running a MS Win
>> XP
>> Pro guest (presumably IA-32)?
>>
>> If so, has anyone successfully gotten MS Win to recognize a local
>> printer attached (and working under CUPS) to the SL 6 host to print to
>> it?
>>
>> I am trying to get Samba running on SL 6 to do this; it worked fine
>> under VMware Workstation on RHEL 5 (CentOS 5).   I have installed two
>> virtual NICs under VirtualBox, one configured NAT, the other host
>> only
>> adapter, and have checked for the IPv4 addresses assigned to both the
>> SL
>> 6 side (vboxnet0) as well as on the MS Win side (via ipconfig under
>> the
>> command prompt window).  I can ping from the MS Win side to both the
>> MS
>> Win host only IP address and to the SL 6 host only IP address, and
>> can
>> ping from the SL 6 side to the SL 6 host only address but not the MS
>> Win
>> host only address.
>