re: Terminal Services Printing
Thursday, May 4, 2006 at 6:03 am
Windows Server 2003 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jerry Ray
(3 messages posted)
I use the free vpn solution wherever I can. To do this, all you have to do is set
up the Windows Server 2003 as a PPTP VPN server. It isn't hard to do at all.
First, share your remote printer with a share name. Make a note of the Netbios name
of the remote computer.
Create a user account on the server if the remote user doesn't already have one.
The one that they are already using for Terminal Server will work fine.
Go to the Network Connections window. Then start the New Connections wizard. Choose
"Set up an advanced connection". Then click Next. Now Choose "Accept incoming connections".
Then click Next. Leave any local ports such as LPT ports unchecked and click Next.
Select "Allow virtual private connections" and click Next. Now choose the users
that will be allowed to connect and click Next. Leave the next page with the defaults
(all protocols and services) and click Next. Now click the Finish button. You now
have an incoming VPN connection using PPTP.
Make sure TCP port 1723 is open on your router and forwards to your server.
On the remote computer, go to Network Connections and create a new connection in
the Network Connection Wizard. Choose "Connect to the Network at my Workplace".
Click Next. Choose "Virtual Private Connection" and click Next. Fill in a description
of the connection and click Next. Choose "Do not dial" and click Next. Now type
in the public IP address of the server's router and click Next. Now click Finish.
Now the remote computer will be able to join the office network.
Double click the icon created in Network Connections representing the VPN connection.
Fill in the user account information from your server and click Connect. After
a moment, you will be joined to the same subnet as your server network, ergo, the
remote will be given an IP address that is local to the office LAN.
Launch terminal services client and connect to the server. Now open Printers and
Faxes on the server. Add a network printer, choosing the netbios name and share
name of your remote printer (now that your server can access it via the VPN). Don't
use the remote computers IP address (it is dynamic), use the share name. The server
will copy the print driver from the remote computer to itself via the VPN and you
will have the printer available to print to from the terminal server console.
You will reconnect the VPN each time prior to using the terminal server.
If DOS apps need to print, open a command prompt on the server and type "NET USE
LPT3 \\Remote\Printer" (replace Remote with the netbios name and Printer with the
share name), and send DOS print jobs to port LPT3.
You can generally do all of these steps in less than an hour.
Good luck.
Jerry Ray
On Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at 5:27 am, Jerry Ray wrote:
>Right around a thousand dollars.
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>Jerry
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