Printing to TCP/IP printer -VPN&TS

[Guest compsosinc@gmail.com]

This question may be more appropriate for the Networking newsgroup but

will try here since it involves Terminal Server.

 

We have a Windows 2003 Terminal Server setup at our main office. It is

also a DC and DHCP Server -I know, bad idea. Our remote office will

connect to the main office via a VPN using Static IPs at each office,

using router-to-router IP-SEC.

 

The main office uses 192.168.1.xxx IP addresses from the DHCP server.

 

We have a TCP/IP - based Canon IR-2270 printer/copier at our remote

office that WYSE thin-clients will print to when using the application

on the TS at the main office. The thin-clients get their IP addresses

from the router there -there is no server here. Our VoIP provider is

setting up the VPN and has not yet provided us any details on its IP

structure.

 

So, when we install the Canon driver on the TS , and choose

Local>Create Port, what IP address should the printer have? Would it

be a 192.168.1.xxx or one based on the IP structure at the remote

site? The printer wizard will prompt us if it cannot find the printer

on the network, and obviously it will not have a chance until the VPN

is setup.

 

There is a third-party vendor "installing" this printer and we want to

tell them to go ahead and add a static IP address to the printer

 

Thanks!

[Guest Priya Raghavan [MSFT]]

Re: Printing to TCP/IP printer -VPN&TS

 

Yes, this is not actually TS specific. It would be more appropriate in the

printer newsgroup or networking newsgroup. This is because it involves

installing the printer directly on the TS server and not auto-creation of

the printer by TS.

 

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Thanks,

Priya.

 

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<compsosinc@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:0f531105-1032-4fb6-a3e2-fd73e5198c02@l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com...

> This question may be more appropriate for the Networking newsgroup but

> will try here since it involves Terminal Server.

>

> We have a Windows 2003 Terminal Server setup at our main office. It is

> also a DC and DHCP Server -I know, bad idea. Our remote office will

> connect to the main office via a VPN using Static IPs at each office,

> using router-to-router IP-SEC.

>

> The main office uses 192.168.1.xxx IP addresses from the DHCP server.

>

> We have a TCP/IP - based Canon IR-2270 printer/copier at our remote

> office that WYSE thin-clients will print to when using the application

> on the TS at the main office. The thin-clients get their IP addresses

> from the router there -there is no server here. Our VoIP provider is

> setting up the VPN and has not yet provided us any details on its IP

> structure.

>

> So, when we install the Canon driver on the TS , and choose

> Local>Create Port, what IP address should the printer have? Would it

> be a 192.168.1.xxx or one based on the IP structure at the remote

> site? The printer wizard will prompt us if it cannot find the printer

> on the network, and obviously it will not have a chance until the VPN

> is setup.

>

> There is a third-party vendor "installing" this printer and we want to

> tell them to go ahead and add a static IP address to the printer

>

> Thanks!