With Player 7 I created an XPSP3 guest VM under Win7-64 and was able to connect and print just fine after installing VM Tools.
However, under a Vista-32 host running the latest available Player 6, the downconverted copy of the VM sees all host printers just fine, but never prints. The documents show up in the guest printer queue, then disappear after a minute or two, as if they printed. The printer itself doesn't even wake up. This happens for any printer tested. The same printers print without problems from the Vista host OS itself.
I notice that, in the VM configuration on the host, no "Printer" entry shows up in the list of devices, though I recall seeing that entry on the Win7 host when I was testing on that.
This seems to be either a Player 6 configuration issue or an issue with the ThinPrint tool not correctly passing the print job through to the host - seemingly it merely thinks it is.
What's my best path for troubleshooting and fixing this? I'm fairly new to VMWare so it's currently pretty much a black box.
I'll try uninstalling and reinstalling the tools if that's possible and report back if that helps.