Re: Remote Printing/VPN - Can this be done?

In article <2ae7cff5-b6de-4440-b3a7-a81d9b982836
@z24g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, says...
> An additional requirement the client now has is for remote printing.
> i.e. Someone from office A can send a print job to the office B
> printer and vice versa between each office.
>
> What is going to be the best method of setting this up? Ideally I'd
> like to achieve this without the need to purchase any additional
> hardware/software.
>

Site to Site VPN's between firewall appliances, all printers are IP
based, all printers shared at the SBS Server.

We do it this way just for printing across 20+ companies all the time.



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BadBoy House <> wrote:
> They don't have any VPN appliances. They simply want to print to a
> shared printer at another site.
>
> Surely you have to do more than just share the printer at the remote
> site?

Hi - since the original post is no longer on the news server and you haven't
quoted any of the original text, it's unlikely that anyone will know what
this is about. I suggest you not use Google Groups to directly access the MS
public newsgroups - they're useful for searching, but that's about it. Try
using a news client, such as Forte Agent, Thunderbird, or even Outlook
Express/Windows Mail. It's a lot easier to do nearly everything that way.
You can mark messages to be watched, filter the views so you can see replies
to your posts easily, and search.

The Microsoft public news server is msnews.microsoft.com and you can
subscribe to as many groups as you like; no authentication is required.

The following is from a post by MVP Malke ...

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Here's information on Usenet and using a newsreader:

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page3.html#12-09-02 - a brief
explanation of newsgroups
http://michaelstevenstech.com/outlo...ssnewreader.htm
http://rickrogers.org/setupoe.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...wto/default.asp
- Set Up Newsreader

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.test.here - MS group to test if your newsreader is
working properly
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm - multiposting vs.
crossposting

Some newsreaders for Windows
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.php - for Forte
http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups)
http://gravity.tbates.org/

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In article <cae2f7ab-104c-402e-ad63-3c18ca4f0b61
@o10g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, says...
>
> They don't have any VPN appliances. They simply want to print to a
> shared printer at another site.
>
> Surely you have to do more than just share the printer at the remote
> site?

If you have two buildings, one has SBS, the other has a site-site VPN
from it to your building with the SBS server and you use AD between both
sites, then all you need is the printer to have an IP and share it from
the SBS system.

If you don't have AD setup between sites, just map the printer by IP to
the local workstation and then print to it.

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You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
Trust yourself.
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