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Of course, you must be sharing the printer on the computer you're connecting to.

On the guest I run the driver install CD and select 'Connect to a networked printer', when it asks for the address I put in the ip address of the W2K3 server - NAT handles the rest. On the same physical network I have a Ubuntu host running VB with a WinXP guest. Perhaps you mean something like my setup ? I have a W2K3 server with a Lexmark usb printer attached. With these there is no need to use the host cups server, you connect to them directly. I think what they were talking about was network printers, ie printers that connect directly to the network not to a PC. But how long it will wait if you like to print the VirtualBox User Manual? Does the first print job open the connection to the printer for ever? Ingo Volunteer Posts: 731 Joined: 22. Or the VM established a print job, prints and waits for an answer. If the printer will send you a message "print finished" (I know this from many windows printer) it should'nt be able to connect to your VM. So printing from the VM to the printer will work fine as you described. NAT doesn't allow this exept you have configured a port forwarding but you say "I didn't need to mess with the networking!!". If Microsoft will send you a web page they can't reach your VM, that's OK. So your VM can reach any external address, google, Microsoft, printer. Your network from the VM is connected to the host through a network address translation. Let me explain it a little more detailed what I mean: If you do not get any responses from the printer then it is furthermore unclear for me. This discussion isn't really important but I can not sleep if I don't know that we exactly mean the same thing.