> What sort of networking > are you using in virtualbox? Can you tell us more about the network > configuration within the XP guest OS? The virtualbox manager says Adapter 1: PCnet-FAST III (NAT) /etc/cups/printers.conf (see the original post) does say that the printer is shared. At the CUPS web interface (http://localhost:631/printers/LaserJet_5MP), though, the header says "Not Shared". So I'm not sure about that.