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Remote printing through Remote Desktop

Hi,

Here is my problem.  I have a user in our accounting dept that uses a remote desktop connection to hook up with a computer in another state to run some payroll applicatons on that system.   The account of course wants to be able to print from the remote machine to their local or network printer back at home.

The machine that the account is connecting to is a standard workstation running winxp.

Do I have any options to be able to print?


Thanks!
Monty
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try this
in the options of remote desktop (the client) untick connect to local printers (forgot the exact wording, and am not at my rdc client machine)
Remote desktop has built-in printer redirection to the default printer on the terminal services client (local) machine. From the Remote Desktop application, select Options, Local resources, Printers. Occasionally, remote desktop will not be able to excute the redirection unless the driver for the local printer is also installed on the terminal server (remote) machine. Terminal services generally does not support printer redirection for dos based applications and I asssume  that the accounting app is modern (32bit) app.  The previous solution will also work (printing to specific ip port) but this assumes that the printer chosen is networked (and has its own ip address) rather than attached to pc directly. Also you will have to select this print  option on the remote computer everytime you print, whereas built in redirection will print to local printer by default once it is working properly.
My remote PC cannot ping the printer because the printer's IP address is local to my LAN (192.168.0.20 in this case), not my Terminal Server.

Does the local printer have to have a public IP for the terminal server to print to it, or is there some other way to get the terminal server to recognize my networked printer since RDC is not doing the job.

Yes, I have loaded the driver on both ends, to no avail.
First setup a VPN tunnel with remote server and then setup a private ip for network printer with same network and then install drivers.

I think the problem will be solved.