No printer?

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:46 AM, James Wilde
<james.wilde at sunde-wilde.com> wrote:
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> On Dec 15, 2009, at 21:26 , James Wilde wrote:
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>> Hi, I feel incredibly stupid.
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>> I am running GC 2.2.9 on a Mac.  I'm relatively new to the Mac.  I've been using 2.2.9 on linux before, and I remember printing out reports without a problem.
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>> Now I wanted to print my first report on the Mac.  I have my trusty Brother laser printer as the default printer on the Mac, directly connected via USB.  But when I press the print button or choose File/Print Report, there is no default printer and I can't find anywhere to add one.  I've been in under GnuCash/ Preferences and there's nothing on the Printing tab except something about print date format, print block characters.
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>> I checked the documentation and the FAQ but found nothing about how to configure the printer.  So if someone can give me a hint, I'd be very grateful.
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> A little more information.
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> On the Mac I have virtualbox, in which I can run a Ubuntu 9-10 client.  On this client I have installed GC, and I can print reports.
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> The interesting thing is that this instance has TWO printers:  on the one hand my trusty Brother as above, on the other Print to File.
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> Now it's one thing that the Mac is not showing my laser printer, but why would Print to File also be missing from the printer list?
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> TIA
>
> //James

I'm not familiar with virtualbox. What do you mean by an Ubuntu 9.10
"client"? Is there a host machine elsewhere, or are you running Ubuntu
9.10 as a virtual instance under Mac OS on the same host?

It sounds like maybe cups isn't running on Ubuntu, or you haven't
successfully configured virtualbox to see your hardware. Check to see
if maybe something failed during the Ubuntu installation.