Printing from VM

[Rashkae]

Derek Broughton wrote:

> 
>> One quirk with my XP VM: I have to open an Explorer window (not
>> Internet Explorer - explorer.exe) in XP, and type \\mymachine in the
>> address bar.  At that point I'm prompted for my user/passwd.  From
>> then on, I can print (and any queued jobs will print).   I've never
>> bothered to track down why XP in the VM forgets my credentials...
> 
> Didn't have that issue - but I _was_ surprised that I didn't need to provide 
> any.

The credential that are being forgotten are for a printer being shared
by Samba, as apposed to accessing the CUPS IPP:  Windows XP Home does
not remember credentials, even though there's a checkmark to remember
password.  You have to either synchronize the Username and Password on
Windows XP with your SMB username password, or you can use a net use
batch file at startup to map a drive letter to a share and incidentally
save your credentials for that session.

Example:

net use z: \\mysambaserver\username /user:username password /persistent:yes