I have a remote office I want to print jobs at the main office...

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Kelvin Beaton

I want a remote office to be able to print here at my office location.

The printer is here on our privite IP network. It does have an IT address.
We have a SonicWall firewall in place.

How can I get that remote user to be able to send print jobs to this
printer?

I have a range of I thing 5 public IP addresses. Would using one of them be
part of the solution? Can they print to a public IP address and have my
sonicwall route that traffic to the priviate IP address. Seems like it would
work in theory, but not sure print traffic would be the only traffic hitting
that IP address.

Maybe I'm way off track...

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks

Kelvin
 
Your message is missing some specifics, but I will try to help
Tou said you have a sonicwall firewall, If you have a VPN connection set up or can Set one up with the sonicwall, then that would be the ideal (Easiest) way of setting up your printing.

Since you posted in the Working Remotely area, I would assume (probably incorrectly) that you are using remote desktop to connect to a server in your main office from your remote office. If this is the case, you would be able to print on all printers that are local to the main office server that you are connected to and running applications on

Otherwise, you need to open up a hole in your firewall (Port Forward) to allow smb printing (or lpd printing) to pass through. This would be a significant security hole though. Also, some ISP's will filter this (SMB) traffic as a strategy to keep thier dumber customers safe

You might be able to forward printing ports with SSH to solve the security issues, but that is a bigger nut to crack. I book I own on SSH doesn't even cover that topic

Good Luc
-Sean

----- Kelvin Beaton wrote: ----

I want a remote office to be able to print here at my office location

The printer is here on our privite IP network. It does have an IT address
We have a SonicWall firewall in place

How can I get that remote user to be able to send print jobs to thi
printer

I have a range of I thing 5 public IP addresses. Would using one of them b
part of the solution? Can they print to a public IP address and have m
sonicwall route that traffic to the priviate IP address. Seems like it woul
work in theory, but not sure print traffic would be the only traffic hittin
that IP address

Maybe I'm way off track..

Any input would be appreciated

Thank

Kelvi
 
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