filePro Printing over a Satellite

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:25:34AM -0500, Walter Vaughan wrote:
> I'm looking for naysayers why I couldn't print to a printer as follows:
> 
> Unix                                               Windows  HP Laser
> Server - Internet - DirecTV - Dish - Modem - Hub - Laptop - Printer
> 
> I know I couldn't print directly via samba to the printer
> since I'll have to use NAT on the other side of the modem in
> order to share it (probably via a foolproof Linksys switch),
> but I should be able to do some sort of local print with
> Anzio or PuTTy methinks.

If you VPN the workstation to the remote LAN, possibly using a SnapGear
router at the UNIX end, you can assign a *fixed* private addresss to
the workstation, and yes, use smbclient to print back to it -- it
doesn't care a whit what the network in the middle is, and indeed,
doesn't even care if your workstation's *public* address is static.

Cheers,
-- jra
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