Setting up Local Printing via VNP

[winty03]

Can someone assist me in setting up local printing via VPN connection. My set up is the following. I connect to work network via VPN. I then connect to my work pc via remote desktop. I wish to print emails and documents stored on my work pc to my printer located at home, connected to my home pc via USB cable. Both pcs are windows xp, and I am connectiong a our work server that runs server 2003. My local printer I am trying to print to is a HP 1600 PSC. Is this possible and if so how do I go about setting it up thanks in advance.

 

[burtsbees]

You must set your printer up as a network printer, which means you'll need to connect it via ethernet cable. Or, you can email yourself what you want to print out.

Burt

 

[winty03]

HMM, so thats mean I would have to get a print server, connect it via parallel port. So I went to all that work. How do I go about pointing or sharing the printer's driver I installed on the work pc back to the local (remote) location? Another problem was installing the printers driver.....all the manufacture gives me is a .exe and no way to manually install the .ini's

 

[burtsbees]

If you set the local printer up as a network printer, and the remote deal is a Windows PC, it should just map that printer once you log onto it remotely.

Burt

 

[winty03]

Well I had partial luck. My MacBook Pro I have works perfect, connect VPN then connect to my disktop via RD. In my printers, my default printer is my home printer. Works perfect. Now my windows box still no luck. I have my printer installed via network now. (USB to my Apple Time Capsule then out wireless to all machines) MBP works perfect , just connected. Windows box, still nothing.

 

[lgarner]

Have you selected to have your home Windows computer allow the remote to connect to its printers? Check the "Local Resources" options in the RDC client.

 

[winty03]

yes I have printers selected in my rdc. Its goofy, the same printer set up from the mac works perfect and the windows box can not get my local printer to connect. Litterally just copying the setting freom on to the other the mac connects my printer and the windows does not.

 

[burtsbees]

That's Windoze for ya...everything else works BUT Windoze...just like their famous oxymoron, "Microsoft Works"...

Burt