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maestrohuber | March 28, 2009 03:47 PM | in Troubleshooting

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I have an Oki Microline 320 Turbo printer that is connected directly via USB port on an iMac running Windows 7 in VMWare Fusion 2.0.2. Since the printer is windows only, I can't install drivers in OSX and then share them with the virtual machine. When I try to add the device manually in the windows OS, it is not discoverable. I think the drivers included on the Windows 7 OS would work with the printer, but I need to know what options I can change within the Virtual Machineto make the device discoverable.

I only want to print in the Windows OS, and the printer is directly connected through USB. I'm happy to provide more information as well.

--EDIT @ 1:53pmEST--
Both of the comments below reference the user running Windows XP, Home Edition, with SP2. I am currently running a virtual machine with Windows 7 Ultimate. If this simply isn't possible in the beta stage, then I will try with XP SP2.

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BEST ANSWER chosen by asker | hellboythegreat | March 27, 2009 04:05 PM

Well, I honestly don't know the exact answer to your question, but I did find someone who is having a similar problem and got it fixed. Here's a link to what they ended up doing. : http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105116

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Got it up and running on XP SP2 without any problems. Thanks Hellboythegreat.

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hellboythegreat | March 27, 2009 05:59 PM

I've been able to find absolutely nothing involving windows 7 and this issue. I did find that the printer you are using should be windows 7 compatible. I think you're best chance of getting it to work would be trying it with xp sp2 and following the directions at the link I posted earlier.

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