Capturing a printer port on a standalone networked printer

[Guest]

Hey all,

Small office with a linksys router running dhcp
Xerox phaser 8850 connected to the network with a static IP.
All systems are windows XP.
Systems connect and print fine.

When users connect to the corporate network using Cisco VPN client 4.6 they
are unable to print.
On the client i've allowed local lan access.

heres the question...
is there a way to capture the printer port of a stand alone printer to lpt1?
NOT net use lpt1 \\server\share!!
There is no server only a network card in the printer.

When i attempt to ping the IP address of the printer with the -a switch, it
doesn't return a netbios name otherwise i could try \\ip_address\netbios_name

thank you for you help

 

[Guest]

The majority of LAN printers support LPR (unix-style) printing, and all this
requires is that your computer can 'see' the IP address of the printer.

It's installed under Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs>Add/Remove Windows
Components, as 'Other Network File and Print Services'

Then all you need in the printer settings is to create an LPR port with the
right IP, and for a single printer the port name is normally 'raw'

 

[GTS]

Capturing the printer port isn't relevant to the issue of losing access to
the locally networked printer when connected to a VPN. When you make the
connection all of your network traffic is rerouted to the changed default
gateway. When you want to also access local resources you need to configure
for split tunneling (if permitted). See the article at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/columns/cableguy/cg1003.mspx
for more information.