problems printing to a remote client

[Guest]

We have a windows 2000, xp and 98 clients who dial in to our main network. We
allocate a fixed ip address for the connection. The client site has its own
network and printers etc.

Want to be able to print to the remote pc using a command of the form

print.exe /d:\\ip_address\sharename

This only seems to work if the printer is physically connected to the client
pc. If you create a TCP/IP port to a network printer and share this logical
local printer it doesn't.

You get the error message unable to initialise device.

Can anyone explain whats going on.

 

[belwaer]

is the default gateway configured in the remote pc

*We have a windows 2000, xp and 98 clients who dial in to our mai
network. We
allocate a fixed ip address for the connection. The client site ha
its own
network and printers etc.

Want to be able to print to the remote pc using a command of th
form

print.exe /d:\\ip_address\sharename

This only seems to work if the printer is physically connected to th
client
pc. If you create a TCP/IP port to a network printer and share thi
logical
local printer it doesn't.

You get the error message unable to initialise device.

Can anyone explain whats going on.

-
belwae

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I checked the tcpip settings on the connection for the client pc and it had
the checkbox against "use default gateway on remote client" ticked. Is this
what you mean?

If not can you explain a bit more as I know very little about pc network
config.

It seems to me as if the client is part of two configs which can't see each
other. One on its own local network to which it connects to use print
services and our own to which it connects for access to our databases and
tools. Would a gateway provide a link between the two? How would I go about
configuring this.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks.