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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: bernhard on September 05, 2004, 03:59:48 PM

Title: Printing via internet and dynamic ip.
Post by: bernhard on September 05, 2004, 03:59:48 PM

I want to print at my local printer (connected to the SME server via USB) from a remote site, a Windows terminal server I run with Rdesktop from my workstation (Linux).

I have registered a DYNDNS domain and it works perfect when it comes to webhosting and mail and I can ping it from the remote location.

I have tried to install the printer on the windows box (at the remote location) but it seems that my printer is not accessible from the network interface wich is connected to internet, only the local one.

Any suggestion? :pint:

Title: Printing via internet and dynamic ip.
Post by: arne on September 05, 2004, 07:21:39 PM

Yes, I think it is "normal" that a printer is not accessible via Internet. I blieve that you will need to set up a VPN connection if you want to make remoote printing via Internet. (Tried to set it up but my ADSL modem did not support it.)

Title: Printing via internet and dynamic ip.
Post by: bernhard on September 06, 2004, 10:52:15 AM

I have tried to set up a VPN (pptp) from the remote site to my SME v6 server, but when I do that the damn windoze box on the other side thinks that it should use MY server at home as standard gateway for the whole companys web connections.

Then I tried to set up a pptp tunnel from my workstation to the remote site and connect to my lpd printer, but it dont work either. I normaly connect to the remote Wk2 terminal server with ssh and rdesktop (it is much much faster than to use pptp and rdesktop).

It must be somewhere I can change the SME v6 server so it would allow to share the printer from the internet to, and not only from the local network.

More suggestions anybody??? :-x