Then, press Continue until the screen showing a option for Sharing appears. When viewing the printer, press the Administration dropdown, and select Modify Printer
Press the Printers tab on the top to list your installed printers, and press the PDF printer.
To enable printer sharing, open up a web-browser on your system and navigate to If prompted for credentials, enter the username and password you use for logging into the computer. pdf’s under /var/spool/cups-pdf/ANONYMOUS. By default, everything you print will end up as. This will give you a printer named “PDF” on your system. To install CUPS-PDF: sudo apt install cups-pdf This is not required if you want to use CUPS to print on a actual printer. The following are some notes on how I got my PDF even though the Windows application thought it was printing on a regular printer CUPSįirst step is to configure CUPS to allow remote connections $ cupsctl -remote-any In my scenario I had no printer available at the time either, which is why I wanted a PDF instead. My host OS was Ubuntu Linux, and while you could attempt to use USB passthrough for the printer, often there are not any drivers for Windows XP. Just check the box in front of your username and click the "OK" button when you're done.Ĭlose the "Group settings" and "Users Settings" windows and log out.I recently got into the position where I needed to get something printed from a Windows XP application which ran in Virtualbox. Select it and then click on the "Properties" button.Īnother window will appear, called "Group 'vboxusers' Properties. In the "Groups settings" window that will appear, scroll down until you see the vboxusers entry. Type your password and click the "Authenticate" button. Go to System -> Administration -> Users and Groups. This is how a default installation of VirtualBox in Ubuntu 9.04 shows the USB devices, and we need to fix it. This tutorial was created mostly for my needs, but I am sure that many of you will find it very helpful. What to do? Well, below is the answer to the endless VirtualBox – USB issue (and it's pretty damn simple too!). Firing up Firefox and searching on Google for a fix takes too long, because there are many old tutorials that teach you how to modify various files or change permissions, etc. To my surprise, I can see the printer in the USB device list of VirtualBox, but I can't access it (very frustrating). I have a Windows installation in a virtual machine just for this reason (sad, I know) and I want to access my printer, which is connected via a USB port. Let's say that I want to print some photos quickly, to give them to someone. I am a 100% Linux user and I have a photo printer that Linux can't recognize. Is an issue with VirtualBox and the attached USB devices that many of us are trying to use in the virtual machine.
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