Off Topic - Printing over the internet

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I have setup a similar situation with an office in the UK. We have
their users connecting to our database via Terminal Services and
everything works great. I am having a mild issue with setting up a
printer that the clients are printing to via TCP/IP. Terminal services
will automatically map printers to the connected users as long as the
drivers are installed on the Terminal Server and the client's printer is
mapped to a LPT, COM, or USB port. I have found out that Terminal
Services will not remap a client's printer that is connected via TCP/IP.
I believe this is where Citrix comes in as they can do this type of
mapping.

The only workaround I have figured out so far is to physically connect
the printer at the client site to a server and share the printer.
Terminal Services will see this as a standard port and allow the
mapping. Another option would be to setup the printer on the Terminal
Server with the IP address of the satellite office and have your router
forward the appropriate port, but I have not looked into this.

HP has some some Internet Printer Software that will allows printering
directly over the Internet

http://h20022.www2.hp.com/busprod/LCCatAtAGlance/0,,type=13037%5Ecategor
y=,00.html?lsidebarLayId=255


Dan Tisone
Operations / IT Consultant
dan.tisone@...
(949) 440-3685 x148
Cel (714) 227-4173





-----Original Message-----
From: Leonard, Jeremy [mailto:jleonard@...]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 8:00 AM
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Subject: [Vantage] Off Topic - Printing over the internet.


I am looking at setting up another site and connecting all the users via
Terminal services. I was wondering how I would go about setting up an
HP Printer with a Jet Direct card at the satellite location. I
currently have a Pix Firewall and Cisco router at the main location.
Would it be best to purchase a PIX and Cisco router for the satellite
location and install the VPN cards into the router? How secure is it if
I simple route the IP
address at the satellite location to a Jet Direct card without a VPN?
Is
there an easier way to do this that's secure? Any thoughts on this
would be appreciated.

Thanks
Jeremy Leonard
IT Manager
K-T Corporation



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I am looking at setting up another site and connecting all the users via
Terminal services. I was wondering how I would go about setting up an HP
Printer with a Jet Direct card at the satellite location. I currently have
a Pix Firewall and Cisco router at the main location. Would it be best to
purchase a PIX and Cisco router for the satellite location and install the
VPN cards into the router? How secure is it if I simple route the IP
address at the satellite location to a Jet Direct card without a VPN? Is
there an easier way to do this that's secure? Any thoughts on this would be
appreciated.

Thanks
Jeremy Leonard
IT Manager
K-T Corporation