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Printing from Vista within a Mac Book Pro and Parallels software setup

I recently bought a Mac Book Pro, and have installed Parallels software and Windows Vista. I can't find how to get the printer attached to my Air Port Extreme to be "seen" in Vista so I can print from that OS. Any pointers?


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Hmmm, theirs a whole bunch that could be causing your problem in this scenario.  Can u get internet with your virtual vista ... if so that meens Vista is connected to the router ... if not u may have to somehow bridge your virtual NIC card with your Macbooks wireless card.

I have never used an airport before .... but I am assuming the printer gets an IP address (if your connected to the network and am able to get to the internet than try adding a printer through the TCP/IP port indicating the IP address if the printer (however I admit to not knowing anything about how the Airport works with the USB port for printers + I have lost all confidence with Windows and quit useing the OS entireley and at this point would not be any sort of an authority on Vista at all!)

Or this could all be pointing towards an issue with Vista and a whole bunch of incompatible hardware, being that the OS is still extremely unreliable and oddly enough probably has more hardware compatibility issue than that of even Apple products itself!
Posted 2007-06-07T05:31:06Z
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Jazzmantrp,

Thank you for your response. I did find that I wasn't able to see the printer in Vista because of my firewall settings on the Mac side. I have that problem resolved, but print jobs to the printer just disappear. No error message, nothing.

I found in the blog on the Parallells site that this is frequently a problem with the software, and there were two possible solutions. One used software called Bonjour to handle print jobs, but it's basic printing and might lose some of the features of the native print driver. The other solution does a more complex setup through CUPS. I'll post when I've tried them to see if either works.

 I've also just downloaded the 3.0 upgrade and will see if that makes any difference.

Thank you,

Jeff
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