virtualbox usb printer greyed out other usb ok

[welshmike]

Please see my reply dated November 12th, 2009 :


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Originally Posted by mattydee View Post
Got it:

add yourselves to the "lp" group. Not sure why...
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Many, many thanks mattydee. That got my Canon IP2600 printer working.

[smilingfrog]

Success!
user must be a member of both virtualbox and lp in order to use a usb printer.
Thanks

[CiaoCiao]

Added myself as a user to lp and fixed it! Thanks all!

[RottNKorpse]

Got it:

add yourselves to the "lp" group. Not sure why...

Worked like a charm...and thank you very much!

I have a relative that is using an old printer with a parrallel port and they upgraded their computer and of course no more parallel ports. So I had to think of a way to get it working...so I bought an adapter and turns out the printer doesn't have drivers for Linux (of course) but also not even Windows 7 so I needed to make it work and the only way I could think of was in a XP VM...which thanks to your efforts of finding out the ip issue...now works so I can run this really old printer just fine now. Thanks again.

[konsty]

so adding your self to the proper group (vboxusers + lp) is the recommended solution.

+1!
Worked for me, thanks

[bayvista]

Same problem with Lucid.

[MrVas]

+1 to adding user id to vboxusers group. I had a similar issue with 64-bit Lucid Lynx (10.04) as host and USB devices being grayed out. Added my uid to the vboxusers group (/etc/groups) and restarted my system to resolve this issue.

More here:

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=30219

Vas

[KMilburn]

I had the same problem, however I found a simple solution.

Edit cups.
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf
The 7th line from the top remove the # so that it reads:
Enable printer sharing and shared printers

Following this correction I started WinXP in VB and the USB was found. Previous attempts of installation did not have the driver, but the new installation (copy 1) works.

[Suncoaster]

Many, many thanks mattydee, that also got my Canon Pixma IP6600D working also. Thats what I like about these forums the knowledge base is great.

Dave

[mattydee]

I'm still getting thanked for this almost a year later! Glad to see I've help so many people! Your all welcome