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[sumesh.tr]

I need a help....if we have two differnt LANs and which are located at different place( A and B).We have printers and other resources at each place.Some applications can run from these two lacation A & B. But the server that used for this situated at Location B.So from Location A we need to take print from this appl. to location A Printer---routing path is from A------B-------A..

I have VPN connectivity to Server At B location.So how can I take print out from the apll. to Location A printer.is there any other configuration needed for connecction from B location Server to Location A network.is it possible by connecting throu a single VPN with two networks as a same network

[Steve123]

Will you be sharing it as a windows shared printer or a network printer?

In order to use windows print sharing you have to make sure your windows networking is allowed through the VPN.

If you have a network printer then they usually use a couple of TCP ports starting from 9000. So again, you just have to make sure you let those ports through your VPN.

[Milton.J]

They do need to be on the same subnets, but if they are connected to the same wireless network then they already are.

First share the printer at location A machine write down the share name you use. Then find the computer name of the machine by right-clicking on "My Computer" and clicking "Manage" and selecting the "Identification" tab, or typing "hostname" or "echo %computername%" at the command prompt. Write that down too.

You may want to make sure you have any firewall on both machines (Windows Firewall, Norton Internet Security, McAfee Firewall, ZoneAlarm, etc.) DISABLED during testing.

Then make sure you can ping the machine at A from the machine at B. Type "ping %computername%" replacing %computername% with the XP Home's computer name. If successful you should receive a line similar to this:
Reply from whatever: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
and if it fails:
"Ping request could not find host..."
or
"Request timed out"
or
"Destination host unreachable"
If it fails then you probably still a firewall problem or they are not on the same network.

Assuming you could ping each computer from the other, then open a command prompt on the laptop (Start > Run) and type:
net use lpt3: "\\%computername%\share_name" /savecred
where share_name is the share name you recorded earlier. It should prompt you for a username, enter your username on the XP Home machine. Then enter the password for the user account. You should get "The command completed successfully."

Then go into "Printers and Faxes" and add a printer. Add a Local printer and DO NOT automatically detect it. Use port LPT3 and then select the appropriate drivers. If prompted, keep existing driver and you don't need to share this new printer.

When it is installed test that you can print to it. If so, you can enable the firewalls and verify that it still works. If the firewalls kill it make sure that "File and Printer Sharing" is an exception or allowed on whatever firewall you have. That should do it!

[Snake08]

It would be easiest if it were set up as a network printer with it's own print server (even using a router capable of printer serving would work).