Printer

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I am remotely connecting to a computer(xp pro) thru a VPN connection at work.
The OS that I have at home is xp home. This setup works great but when I am
in the remote desktop session I can't use my local printer from the remote
desktop connection. Is it possible to be connected remotely and still get
your local printer to function?

 

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yes it is the driver for the local printer has to be installed on remote
computer, and set your loacl printer to share.

"zbell" <zbell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E136003B-75B7-451E-9307-8B6E4F710488@microsoft.com...
>I am remotely connecting to a computer(xp pro) thru a VPN connection at
>work.
> The OS that I have at home is xp home. This setup works great but when I
> am
> in the remote desktop session I can't use my local printer from the remote
> desktop connection. Is it possible to be connected remotely and still get
> your local printer to function?

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.work_remotely (More info?)

What you are saying is that the driver for printer at my house has to be
installed on the computer at work. If this is correct then I still have a
problem. When I am at home and trying to follow your advice is says "Printer
is not attached to a local port". It seems to insist that I have the printer
from home attached to the computer at work. I want to be able to print on my
printer at home from the remote connection at work. Have you seen this before
or am I trying to do the impossible? Any help would make myself and a couple
of my users very happy.

"UncleFrank" wrote:

> yes it is the driver for the local printer has to be installed on remote
> computer, and set your loacl printer to share.
>
> "zbell" <zbell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E136003B-75B7-451E-9307-8B6E4F710488@microsoft.com...
> >I am remotely connecting to a computer(xp pro) thru a VPN connection at
> >work.
> > The OS that I have at home is xp home. This setup works great but when I
> > am
> > in the remote desktop session I can't use my local printer from the remote
> > desktop connection. Is it possible to be connected remotely and still get
> > your local printer to function?
>
>
>