Win98 internet print to Win2K.

[dgrewe]

Anyone Know where I can go to get infomation on how to:

Print from Win98 Computer connected to internet to a Win2K computer connected to internet. The computers are on different local area network in different domains in different companies not associated with each other. One is a Customer of the other.

Situation. Company A on Gulf Coast get information from Company B on the East Coast by fax/overnight mail. Information is time sensitive and must be delivered rapidly to a Customer C on the West Coast. Looking at printing it to Customer C's Win2K computer on internet with printer assigned for such actions.

 

[dxd]

I would think emailing or faxing would be a much simpler solution?

Or is this just a hypothetical scenario?

I would assume you would need to be authenticated by their network in order to use any of their resources. You would probably need to a secure connection, tunnel or VPN, to accomplish that.

 

[dgrewe]

We already deliver the information by Fax or Overnight or Email or FTP and have a secure Internet Server web page unique for each customer. Plus the customers can have any combination of the delivery methods mentioned. However, Several customers with Win2k computer are asking if we can print directly to their printers as another delivery method.

So right now it is just in the hypothetical scenario stage. But if the sceniaro below is true then we might not proceed.

From what info I have, I will have to be a user on their system, add that computer to a VPN and have a printer icon on every computer that needs to print to them. This will have to be repeated for each customer. So if I have 50 customer that what this I'll need to maintain a computer (plus a backup) with 50 printer icons.

I was hoping this is not the case and there is another way around it.