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Printer Not Ready

I have a user that is unable to print from her house when she is remote controlling her office computer.  She is connected through our VPN which is Cisco AnyConnect.  Her home machine is XP and her office machine in W7.  She has an HP1102w at her house and in her office.  She can print locally at her house and in her office but when trying to print remotely to her home printer she receives an error "Printer Not Ready."
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You would need to enable print spooler / services via cisco anyconnect
Is the Printer Shared on the XP machine? Any Share Permissions issues?
Is W7 configured for the correct Port under the XP printers icon?
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Thank you for the answers.  I have not been able to try either solution because I have not gone back to her home.  

PcProNJ, do you know where that setting is within Anyconnect?  I did look for a print spooler service within Anyconnect but did not find anything.

Coral47, I will check into the permissions.

Thanks
Two other things:

1. make sure she is using the correct printer icon when trying to send it to the XP. There should be two. One for the local W7, and one for the remote XP.

2. If everything looks good, delete the XP off the W7 system. and reinstall it.

I just spent an hour tail-chasing mine, trying to get my W2K to print to W7 (it was working before).
I finally nuked it off of W2K and reinstalled it. It fixed whatever the issue was.  ; )
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Sorry for the delayed response.  I deleted the printer and uninstalled the driver from the XP machine and then reinstalled to no avail.  I checked and double checked to make sure she was using the printer icon that was being redirected by the W7 machine.  

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OK, still sounds like a Permission issue though.
Is she having any problems with the other Shares on the home computer from work?

Check the Share permissions on the printer and the Local permissions (I think).

How is the Printer connected to the XP machine?
I kind of doubt it, but look to see if the firewall is blocking it, next time you are there.

I have to go out for a while. I will check back tonight.
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Thank you!  I am heading back to her house this afternoon and will hopefully have good news to report.

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Thank you
Thank you much.    : )