Re: [Hampshire] Print sharing problem

Apologies, sent this under the wrong identity.

I don't think that running a VPN client would prevent you seeing the local
network. Therefore if you share the printer via CUPS or Samba, you should be
able to access it from all boxes. The VPN client should still allow software
that requires it to find the printer if it is installed on the local machine.

I'm sure others have more experience of VPN than I do.

Hope this helps,

Tim B.

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 21:48, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Long time no post.
> I'm after some advice on the situation below:
>
> I work from home via a work laptop & VPN, and we also have a laptop
> and desktop of our own. Is there anyway of sharing the printer we have
> with all 3 PCs at the same time?
> I've already thought of a print server, but with my work PC living in
> a different network (VPN) than the rest I cannot see this working.
>
> What I'd envisaged was some form of printer switch with a parallel
> input from my work PC, an Ethernet input, and a parallel output to the
> printer.
>
> Any suggestions/work arounds?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris