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MacInWin
Guest
Setup: MBP 8,3 (17" early 2011) running El Cap 10.11.2.
Parallels 11.1.1 (latest updates applied)
Windows 7 as virtual machine.
I have an old printer that doesn't have drivers for OS X or any Windows more recent than Win7. It's a label printer critical to my wife's small business. The challenge is that the printer drops offline in OS X as soon as I start the boot process for Win7, consistently. To get it to work, I have to boot Win7, then unplug the printer USB cable, replug the printer and it appears in Win7, but still shows as Offline in OS X. To get it back in OS X I have to close parallels (after shutting down the Win7 VM) and then unplug/plug it again. I've checked all the sharing boxes I can find, but it's very consistent in this behavior despite changing sharing settings in all sorts of configurations. And, it's only started doing this recently (maybe about when I applied 10.11.2, but I'm not totally certain).
Any hints on how I can have the printer stay online so I don't have to do the unplug/plug routine? Before the problem appeared I had it plugged into a Belkin Thunderbolt hub and it worked nicely, but now the unplug/plug trick has to happen at the MBP port only. The ports on the Belkin are all working fine with other devices and I have even been successful getting the printer online through the hub, but as soon as I try booting Win7 in Parallels, the printer goes offline and the unplug/plug trick doesn't work at the hub, only the MBP port. I can live with it but it's really annoying. I've even gotten to the point of considering BootCamp-ing the Win7 installation just to get away from the hassle of the whole thing. But I thought I'd ask here first, to see if there is a Parallels/Win7 wizard here that has any hints. The Parallels support website didn't have anything about this type of problem that I could find.
TIA,
Parallels 11.1.1 (latest updates applied)
Windows 7 as virtual machine.
I have an old printer that doesn't have drivers for OS X or any Windows more recent than Win7. It's a label printer critical to my wife's small business. The challenge is that the printer drops offline in OS X as soon as I start the boot process for Win7, consistently. To get it to work, I have to boot Win7, then unplug the printer USB cable, replug the printer and it appears in Win7, but still shows as Offline in OS X. To get it back in OS X I have to close parallels (after shutting down the Win7 VM) and then unplug/plug it again. I've checked all the sharing boxes I can find, but it's very consistent in this behavior despite changing sharing settings in all sorts of configurations. And, it's only started doing this recently (maybe about when I applied 10.11.2, but I'm not totally certain).
Any hints on how I can have the printer stay online so I don't have to do the unplug/plug routine? Before the problem appeared I had it plugged into a Belkin Thunderbolt hub and it worked nicely, but now the unplug/plug trick has to happen at the MBP port only. The ports on the Belkin are all working fine with other devices and I have even been successful getting the printer online through the hub, but as soon as I try booting Win7 in Parallels, the printer goes offline and the unplug/plug trick doesn't work at the hub, only the MBP port. I can live with it but it's really annoying. I've even gotten to the point of considering BootCamp-ing the Win7 installation just to get away from the hassle of the whole thing. But I thought I'd ask here first, to see if there is a Parallels/Win7 wizard here that has any hints. The Parallels support website didn't have anything about this type of problem that I could find.
TIA,