Setting up TCP/IP printer via VPN&TS

This question may be more appropriate for the Terminal Service group
but
will try here

We have a Windows 2003 Terminal Server setup at our main office. It
is
also a DC and DHCP Server -I know, bad idea. Our remote office will
connect to the main office via a VPN using Static IPs at each office,
using router-to-router IP-SEC.


The main office uses 192.168.1.xxx IP addresses from the DHCP server.


We have a TCP/IP - based Canon IR-2270 printer/copier at our remote
office that WYSE thin-clients will print to when using the
application
on the TS at the main office. The thin-clients get their IP addresses
from the router there - there is no server here. Our VoIP provider is
setting up the VPN and has not yet provided us any details on its IP
structure.


So, when we install the Canon driver on the TS , and choose
Local>Create Port, what IP address should the printer have? Would it
be a 192.168.1.xxx or one based on the IP structure at the remote
site? The printer wizard will prompt us if it cannot find the printer
on the network, and obviously it will not have a chance until the VPN
is setup.


There is a third-party vendor "installing" this printer and we want
to
tell them to go ahead and add a static IP address to the printer -what
are the possibilites here?

Thanks!

After the VPN is up you should be able to connect to the printer by its real
IP address on the other network. Then you can set it up as a printer on the
server in the normal way.
Anthony, http://www.airdesk.com


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> This question may be more appropriate for the Terminal Service group
> but
> will try here
>
> We have a Windows 2003 Terminal Server setup at our main office. It
> is
> also a DC and DHCP Server -I know, bad idea. Our remote office will
> connect to the main office via a VPN using Static IPs at each office,
> using router-to-router IP-SEC.
>
>
> The main office uses 192.168.1.xxx IP addresses from the DHCP server.
>
>
> We have a TCP/IP - based Canon IR-2270 printer/copier at our remote
> office that WYSE thin-clients will print to when using the
> application
> on the TS at the main office. The thin-clients get their IP addresses
> from the router there - there is no server here. Our VoIP provider is
> setting up the VPN and has not yet provided us any details on its IP
> structure.
>
>
> So, when we install the Canon driver on the TS , and choose
> Local>Create Port, what IP address should the printer have? Would it
> be a 192.168.1.xxx or one based on the IP structure at the remote
> site? The printer wizard will prompt us if it cannot find the printer
> on the network, and obviously it will not have a chance until the VPN
> is setup.
>
>
> There is a third-party vendor "installing" this printer and we want
> to
> tell them to go ahead and add a static IP address to the printer -what
> are the possibilites here?
>
> Thanks!
>
>