[geeks] Question regarding VMWare.

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Thu Nov 8 12:50:52 CST 2007


On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Michael Vergallen wrote:

> I have just tested VMware on my workstation that I am about to replace
> with a new workstation.I seem to be unable to configure the printer
> port . My old system was dual boot Windows & ubento Linux. so I could
> print   data on both OS'es but under vmware I'm unable to gain access
> to the printers connected to the network... Can anyone help and
> explain how to  do this or point me to a document ? As I'm just
> starting to use vmware I don't quite know how to configure this.

Change your Ethernet setting in the VM configuration from "NAT" to
"Bridged".

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