Re: what's with VPN trashing my network printer?

["Paul Nelson" <p_nelson-br@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry,

I think you're right that when you're hooked up via VPN, you belong to that
network for the duration. I've had that happen to me here when I work from
home. Fortunately, the printer is close by, and if I need to print something
locally when I'm connected to a client site, I switch my printer connection
to parallel from the JetDirect box and forge ahead.
Go Niners!

Paul Nelson
Braxton-Reed, Inc.
877-777-2729 Office
630-327-8665 Cell
708-923-7354 Home
pnelson@braxton-reed.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Draper" <jdraper@trilosoft.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: what's with VPN trashing my network printer?


> I use MS DUN with the VPN adapter (PPTP) to establish my VPN tunnel to an
> iDSL router so I can then start a display and printer session to an AS400.
> If I then use MS Word or whatever PC software and try to print to a
network
> printer it can't find the network printer.  I'm on Win98SE.
>
> Seems to be ditto with Windows Explorer?
>
> Am I just on a different and mutually exclusive network?
>
> TIA,
>
>
> Jerry
>
>
> Jerome Draper, Trilobyte Software Systems, since 1976
> Network and Connectivity Specialist -- Mac's, LAN's, PC's, Linux, Sun, and
> iSeries
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>
>
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