Parallels Steals Printer - build 1970

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jwjohnson99

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I have a Network Laser printer that works fine from the PC's on my network, it also works fine from my MacPro. It also works fine from WinXP running in Parallels. The problem is that once I use the printer in my Parallels/WinXp VM it is no longer available to the Mac. I can still print from my other PC's and the VM. Even if I stop the VM, disconnect it from the network, even quit parallels altogether it can't be found by the mac. If I reboot the Mac it's ok again until I use it in the VM.

I've read lot's in this forum about problems printing from the VM. That's not my problem. It just seems to steal the printer and make it unavailable to the mac.

If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate the help.

Thanks.

Printer is a Brother HL-5250DN if that makes any difference.
 
It's on the network. It is not directly attached to the Mac Pro, or any of my windows PC's. It has it's own Network adapter built in. When it works it's nice because I can print from any computer to it without regard to other computers needing to be working. Also great for laptops on wireless. Just not so great for printing from my Mac right now.
 
No, but I understood that was a fix for being able to find and use the printer in XP. Maybe if I'm using the printer through Bonjour, it won't keep the Mac from seeing it?
 
I went ahead and Changed the printer setting in the Mac so that I was sharing the printer (even though it's actually on the network) then I installed Bonjour for Windows XP. It actually found two instances of the printer. One by itself on the network and the other the shared version on the mac. I picked the shared version and picked the proper printer driver. It now works fine from both Parallels/XP and from the Mac.

Thanks for the Tip.

Jeff
 
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