samba not working for printer sharing with VirtualBox

[Ilan Tal]

I have 2 Ubuntu 10.10 machines, a desktop with VirutalBox and a laptop without VirtualBox. I have a printer which I want to share over the LAN to a Windows XP machine. I cannot share it on the desktop with VirtualBox but have no problem on the laptop. I use Administration -> Printing -> Add -> Network Printer -> Windows Printer via SAMBA -> Browse... I will see WORKGROUP and see both of my computers. Here is the kick: if the printer is on the laptop it will appear when I click ILAN-LAPTOP. On the other hand if it is on my desktop, it will not appear when I click ILAN-MAIN (the desktop with VirtualBox).
Whenever the update manager has updates, I install them. One day the update included samba client and after I installed the update, everything started to work and I could share the printer. A couple of days later there was another update which included a new kernel. After that it went back to the failed state. So it seems that someone knows there is a problem and it can get fixed, but I don't think the connection to VirtualBox is appreciated. (It ALWAYS works on the laptop, but rarely works on the desktop except when I'm lucky enough to get a correct update.)
BTW, I should mention that I am NOT trying to share the printer within the guest OS of VirtualBox, but rather from the Ubuntu 10.10 host itself.
I would like someone to reproduce the bug so that it can be finally fixed, once and for all.
Kernel Linux 2.6.35-27-generic. Gnome 2.32.0
Thanks,
Ilan

[Ilan Tal (ilan-tal)]

This morning there was an update to several SAMBA programs. After the update the sharing is alive and working. Hopefully it will remain fixed??

[Sebastian Bator (eremit7)]

If the problem is fixed we can set the status to reflect this. Feel free to reopen the bugreport, if the bug reappears.

Eremit 7

[Ilan Tal (ilan-tal)]

Thanks. Please close it as it seems to be working in Ubuntu 11.04. 11.04 has lots and lots of other problems at this stage but hopefully it will settle down before too long. When it does settle down, hopefully the printer will remain fixed.