remote desktop,vpn and printing

My user vpn into our network to access their desktop in the office their
local printer does not show up when as a printer on the remote desktop. I
had them share out their printer and when they attach to the vpn and local
desktop have them attached to their printer by \\localmachine\localprinter.
The local printer is a usb dell a920 on an XP pro system with SP3.

When they print from the remote machine to their local printer the job get
queued but never starts printing. So what do I need to set to get this to
work properly.

If using the Windows VPN client, get your user to untick the 'Use remote
gateway' checkbox on his VPN setup.
Now access to printers, internet, etc is from the VPN client computer, only
access to the Remote Desktop target and it's subnet uses the encrypted VPN
tunnel.

If using VPN that terminates in your firewall e.g. Cisco, consult their
documentation on how to implement split tunnelling.
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Regards,
Newell White


"Hal" wrote:

> My user vpn into our network to access their desktop in the office their
> local printer does not show up when as a printer on the remote desktop. I
> had them share out their printer and when they attach to the vpn and local
> desktop have them attached to their printer by \\localmachine\localprinter.
> The local printer is a usb dell a920 on an XP pro system with SP3.
>
> When they print from the remote machine to their local printer the job get
> queued but never starts printing. So what do I need to set to get this to
> work properly.