Hi all,
I'll give you a quick run down of the setup we have. 4 pc's running win 7 32bit on a work group at a remote site, they have a printer that is connected to each via IP (i.e. set up a standard ip port on each machine and mapped the printer to it), there is no server at this site.
The users need to access resource, i.e. network shares and a bunch of apps which are installed on a terminal server back at the main site. The users VPN to the main site to access these. The problem i am having is how can i get the users to print back to the IP printer locally networked?
The problems i am having are that as soon as the user connects to the VPN they loose connection to the networked printer, I have set the RDP client to forward the printers through and these are visible on the RDP session on the terminal server. When the user sends a print to the redirected printer, the queue shows the print job enter and leave, then if i minimise the RDP session and look at the print queue locally i can see a job in the queue called "Remote Desktop Redirected Printer Doc". If i leave the VPN connected this eventually times out and errors, if i disconnect the VPN while the the doc is still in the queue it will print.
I can get it to work if i share the printer via usb from a machine then VPN and RDP to the Terminal server, but not if i am connecting to it via an IP port. Also doing this way means that only 1 of the 4 machines can print, because a soon as the pc with the printer connects to VPN the rest loose connection.
I looked in to redirecting the printer to an LPT port, but that seems to require the printer to be share from another machine/server (using: net use LPTx \\servername\sharename).
Any ideas?
Cheers
Locrieth