Print network documents to home printer through vpn

Example?

Home (Printer) > VPN > Office Data
or
Home > VPN > Office Data

pcAnywhere, GotoMypc, VNC (Maybe), etc are able to print to the local computer OR the remote computer.  I Remote Desktop connection might be able to do that as well (haven't tried).

Second Example should read
Home > VPN > Office Data (Printer)

Where "Home = Remote"

You can print to the home printer and vis versa if the the network router is not preventing that.
So couple of  ways:
- if the printer has an ip address (tcp-ip printer port), then you can add it to your home computer and print normally.
- another way if you are remote desktop to a computer at work then, on the options click on printers and the printer (home one) will apear on the network computer.

post back with details and we can post back.
hope this helps!  

thanks,

Rairdonm,

the scenario I'm using would be to print office data on home printer: Home (Printer) > VPN > Office Data

RobWill and Fm250,

I am using watchguard vpn (x500 that uses a safenet adapter) along with windows xp remote desktop

I'll try the suggestions tonight and report back wednesday.

>>"I am using watchguard vpn (x500 that uses a safenet adapter) along with windows xp remote desktop"
The option I suggested above should work, however there can be difficulties if it is a USB printer or even more so if a multi-function unit. Officially, Microsoft doesn't support printing to a USB printer through a remote desktop session, however it usually works as described. Shared printers or those connected by parallel cable should be no problem.

One other point, with many VPN connections you can print to a local TCP/IP printer as suggested by fm250, However, the SafeNet client is more or less unidirectional and will not usually allow you to connect to another TCP/IP device on your local network. If you have a TCP/IP printer you can test by trying to ping the printer from the RD seession. If it is set up as a share it should work fine, but direct TCP/IP printing will probably not work.

You also have to make sure the computer you're connecting to via remote desktop has your printer drivers installed. )i.e. if you have an HP Laserjet 9000 at home, the server has to have those drivers installed or it will not map correctly.)

Duplicate question by same author:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21833847/Is-there-any-way-to-print-documents-to-home-printer-through-vpn.html

are duplicate questions illegal? If it is I apologize.

Not really, but sort of.  Here is a FAQ on what you should do.

     https://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp#hi262

clcurri, often a question might fit into more than one topic area (TA), so the correct procedure is to post in one TA, and then in the second TA, create a 20 point question with a brief outline of the topic and a link to the other question.
If you would like, you could ask the moderators to "merge" the 2 questions, by moving the responses to one TA or the other. Just post a request at:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Community_Support/

Whoops, should have refreshed, sorry giltjr.
--Rob

RobWill, no problem, it happens.  I've done it.

Thanks clcurri,
--Rob