Remote Desktop/local printers

[Guest]

I have a notebook at a remote office that connects to main office via pair of
VPN routers. Local printers on remote notebook appear in printer list when
connected to 1 XP Pro box in main office but not when connected to another XP
Pro box at main office. Local printer (remote) in question is attached to a
desktop at the remote office and served by it. Suggestions to have local
printers appear on 1st main office XP box?? Thanks in advance.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Are they the same printer? Or check this post,

Solved: TCP/IP printer is not ...thou remote desktop. The problem is, the printer is only mapped when using LPT and not mapped using a local tcp/it port. I do not have a local print ...
www.chicagotech.net/netforums/viewtopic.php?p=203&sid=9b5ac30725a7c407aaae18a980a7ef7c


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
I have a notebook at a remote office that connects to main office via pair of
VPN routers. Local printers on remote notebook appear in printer list when
connected to 1 XP Pro box in main office but not when connected to another XP
Pro box at main office. Local printer (remote) in question is attached to a
desktop at the remote office and served by it. Suggestions to have local
printers appear on 1st main office XP box?? Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Same printer. Notebook in remote office and in same remote office LAN is a
desktop that has printer attached via LPT1 port. Notebook prints to this
printer fine on the LAN. This notebook connects across VPN (IPSec tunnel) to
desktop A in main office Remote Desktop and sees no local printers. Same
notebook connects to desktop B in same LAN as desktop A and does successfully
see the local printer mentioned above.

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Any errors in the server event viewer?

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Same printer. Notebook in remote office and in same remote office LAN is a
desktop that has printer attached via LPT1 port. Notebook prints to this
printer fine on the LAN. This notebook connects across VPN (IPSec tunnel) to
desktop A in main office Remote Desktop and sees no local printers. Same
notebook connects to desktop B in same LAN as desktop A and does successfully
see the local printer mentioned above.

 

[Guest]

Have a notebook on a LAN ("NB") that connects via Remote Desktop to pc in a
LAN ... HP Laserjet 2840 is LAN connected to the NB and another HP LJ 2840 is
part of the "remote" LAN ... have done much "troubleshooting", but nothing
seems to work to enable the NB to print locally from info generated by the
"remote" LAN ... any suggestions?

 

[SteveL]

I have no idea if this is the same issue, what I noticed today is that;
background first, I connect a stand alone laptop from my home to a PC via
DSL LAN workgroup, when connected to the PC on the LAN I go to
start/settings/printers and noticed that in the list it includes my local
printers from my laptop and or that have been installed at one point.

Q: Is this so that I am able to print something from the PC to my local
printer via remote?

TIA

 

[Robert L. \(MS-MVP\)]

Yes.

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