Hi,
I work in a very small office and we have a couple of people that would like to work from home time-to-time. Our office is running windows server 2003 and we have a VPN access set up through our D-link router. We are using a 3rd party software to run remote desktop between the client and the host computer. The client computer (home) and the host computer (office) are both running winxp home.
I have set up the router VPN and remote desktop solution and all works fine. The client computer can see the host computer and remotely control the host copmtuer from the client side.
The problem I have is that I want to print to a local printer (home) while connected to the remote (host) computer over the vpn. Users want to be connected to their office computer from home and print to their home (local) printer.
I know some 3rd party remote desktop solutions have this function built in, however, we are using Radmin for this...we found this to be the fastest solution.
Here is a brief description of the vpn setup:
the user from home logs into the vpn gateway 192.168.2.1 and obtains an ip address of 192.168.2.2 mask 255.255.255.255
All computers on our office network use 192.168.1.xx addresses with a mask of 255.255.255.0 and a dns of 192.168.1.100
The VPN is enabled and the PPTP server is enabled on our router (VPN is through router)
When the client computer is connected to the office vpn, I can ping the office computers and the office computer can ping the client computer. However, the client computer cannot see any of the shared folders on the office computers, it can just see our server, and the office computers can't see any of the shared folders on the client computer.
I was hoping you could just "share" the local printer and the office computers would be able to see it through the vpn when connected, however, this does not seem to work?
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Is it even possible to do what I am trying to do?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff
I work in a very small office and we have a couple of people that would like to work from home time-to-time. Our office is running windows server 2003 and we have a VPN access set up through our D-link router. We are using a 3rd party software to run remote desktop between the client and the host computer. The client computer (home) and the host computer (office) are both running winxp home.
I have set up the router VPN and remote desktop solution and all works fine. The client computer can see the host computer and remotely control the host copmtuer from the client side.
The problem I have is that I want to print to a local printer (home) while connected to the remote (host) computer over the vpn. Users want to be connected to their office computer from home and print to their home (local) printer.
I know some 3rd party remote desktop solutions have this function built in, however, we are using Radmin for this...we found this to be the fastest solution.
Here is a brief description of the vpn setup:
the user from home logs into the vpn gateway 192.168.2.1 and obtains an ip address of 192.168.2.2 mask 255.255.255.255
All computers on our office network use 192.168.1.xx addresses with a mask of 255.255.255.0 and a dns of 192.168.1.100
The VPN is enabled and the PPTP server is enabled on our router (VPN is through router)
When the client computer is connected to the office vpn, I can ping the office computers and the office computer can ping the client computer. However, the client computer cannot see any of the shared folders on the office computers, it can just see our server, and the office computers can't see any of the shared folders on the client computer.
I was hoping you could just "share" the local printer and the office computers would be able to see it through the vpn when connected, however, this does not seem to work?
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Is it even possible to do what I am trying to do?
Thanks in advance.
Jeff