Help with USB and printers!!

[biggbaby]

Please help me. I am running MAC OSX with parallels installed. When i run my Windows XP VM, it does not read the USB devices connected to the MAC OSX. Including external hard drives and mp3 players.

Also, i cannot get the Windows VM to recognize the printer connected to the wireless network. How do i get it to work?

Please help!

 

[Morgenl]

Have you enabled the USB controlers in the configuration editor?

On printers, search the forums for "Bonjour" printing. That will tell you how to get your printer working.

 

[sallybode]

Setting up a printer in Windows

Yes, it is true you can print via Bonjour, however, I just went through that myself and I found that there were a couple of things I had to do first:

1. I had to share my printer in MAC preferences.
2. And! I had to set up and enable my sharing folders between desktops!
3. I had to have my printer set in Parallels as a parallel connection
4. I had to have USB on the list too
5. I had to have my printer install disks for when I installed the printer in Windows despite what Bonjour said.

Meanwhile the printer wouldn't print after installing it normally in Add a printer in Control Panel. There was a secondary driver it needed. I am glad I was persistent. Then when I did the Bonjour, it worked fine because I had the rest of it done. Otherwise I was getting that I did not have enough permissions with my system to install a printer.

My son installed Parallels for me and he had to also before I could do anything, install a driver which activated my print spooler. Without that, I couldn't do anything but I did solve everything else on my own.