how to print on a network printer out of a standalone windows hvm?

[krei...@gmail.com]

In the end I managed to install windows (thx to all people posting in this mailing list, it helped a lot) but one problem is persistent:
I can't find my network printer from windows and therefore I can't print directly.
I tried to copy a pdf made by free-pdf to my printer-vm, it does'nt work. I couldn't find a way to copy a file from the windows hvm to my printer appvm.
On the other hand there is no problem copying the clipboard to other vms...

My question is:
how can I manage to print directly on my network printer?
or:
how to copy files (without using a usb hdd or something like this)from my windows hvm to my printer appvm?

thnx a lot in advance

[Ángel]

krei...@gmail.com wrote:
> My question is:
> how can I manage to print directly on my network printer?
> or:
> how to copy files (without using a usb hdd or something like this)from my windows hvm to my printer appvm?

You could connect the Windows VM to a printer-vm per
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/firewall/#enabling-networking-between-two-qubes

At that point you could:
a) Make Windows print to the cups service in the printer-vm
or
b) Copy the files to the printer-vm (eg. with samba)


Connecting directly to the real network printer may be from simple (eg.
just providing an IP address, because it's just autodiscovery that
fails) to quite complicated.

[Arnulf Maria Bultmann]

thanks for your advice. It works now by using windows directly ... ;)