My host PC is networked and running Windows XP Professional. I have
installed Windows Server 2003 with Office 2007 on my guest PC. I have been
trying to find out how I can print to a networked printer from my Virtual PC
but have been unsuccessful. All the articles that I found do not work for me.



Can someone assist me?

Thanks.

"confused" <confused@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4806A604-A41A-404C-8781-0A6F31441035@xxxxxx

> My host PC is networked and running Windows XP Professional. I have
> installed Windows Server 2003 with Office 2007 on my guest PC. I have
> been
> trying to find out how I can print to a networked printer from my Virtual
> PC
> but have been unsuccessful. All the articles that I found do not work for
> me.
>
> Can someone assist me?

You would set up a network printer on your guest operating system in exactly
the same way as you would set up a network printer on any other machine
(physical or virtual) connected to your network...

Is your virtual machine in the same workgroup / domain as your host?

Can you print from your host to the networked printer? If so, how are you
connecting to it?


--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

confused wrote:

> My host PC is networked and running Windows XP Professional. I have
> installed Windows Server 2003 with Office 2007 on my guest PC. I have been
> trying to find out how I can print to a networked printer from my Virtual PC
> but have been unsuccessful. All the articles that I found do not work for me.

confused:

Well, the obvious way is to have the host share the printer on the network. Did
you try that?

But one problem you may have is that many consumer level printers do not have
drivers that work with Server OS's (or 64-bit OS's).

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

David Wilkinson wrote:

> confused wrote:

>> My host PC is networked and running Windows XP Professional. I have
>> installed Windows Server 2003 with Office 2007 on my guest PC. I have
>> been trying to find out how I can print to a networked printer from my
>> Virtual PC but have been unsuccessful. All the articles that I found
>> do not work for me.

>
> confused:
>
> Well, the obvious way is to have the host share the printer on the
> network. Did you try that?
>
> But one problem you may have is that many consumer level printers do not
> have drivers that work with Server OS's (or 64-bit OS's).

Oops, I misread your post. I thought the printer was attached to the host.

--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:53:02 -0800, confused
<confused@xxxxxx> wrote:

>My host PC is networked and running Windows XP Professional. I have
>installed Windows Server 2003 with Office 2007 on my guest PC. I have been
>trying to find out how I can print to a networked printer from my Virtual PC
>but have been unsuccessful. All the articles that I found do not work for me.
>

For me it all fell into place after I set up a user password on the
host PC.