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I have a printer connected to my wireless router. When I'm connected to my Vpn I cannot print/ping the printer. Is there a solution to this? My reouter is a Netgear
anth.mills
I saw this post this morning and was hoping to see a viable response as I do not have one other than it is my experience that you can not print to a wireless printer while using a vpn connection in the same wireless network.
My theory (with nothing to support it) is that since you are within a tunnel while using the vpn connection you can not see outside of the tunnel where the printer resides.
If the printer was hard wired to the PC being used to make the vpn connection then that printer would be within the vpn network, so to speak.
I remain interested in seeing another stating and explaining how it can be accomplished though.
Bryan
(RAS Helpdesk T1 Analyst)
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I don't know if this might make any difference, but the printer is hardwired to the router and not wirless. The only device using wireless is my PC when connecting to the router.
Thanks for your responses so far.anth.mills
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Your tunnel originates at the PC so the printer would need to be physically connected to the PC.
Bryan
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With a real VPN though, you should appear to be connected as if you were part of the LAN and printing should be no problem. If however you're just RDP'ing in, your router or whatever device you're using, forwards you to the IP of a particular PC/Server. If the printer is not attached to that device, you won't be able to print to it.
For instance, if you're connecting to a Cisco PIX via Cisco VPN client you would appear to be on the LAN as if you were in the building. If you have a VPN tunnel created between two sites, again you would appear to be on the LAN.
I have my router setup to allow me to connect to my main PC at home remotely. Since my printer is physically attached to a different PC, I can't send print jobs to it from a remote connection as it's only configured with port forwarding on the router, and not a real VPN.
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I've sorted a solution for this problem. There is a function thro' Viatores called split tunneling. This allows you access to your local network. The downside is your VPN is not so secure.
Thanks to all who have posted replies.anth.mills
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What you can do is a combination of Bryco and Anth.mills' response, I think that what's happening is that when you use the VPN your computer becomes part of the network and you pretty much get kicked out of your own network, specially if the network at work is for example a 10.0.0.x and your network has the same id 10.0.0.x that could be the case, you could connect your printer using the parallel or usb port.
At work we connect to our client using a cisco vpn connection and i need to find out how i can have them connected but also able to access data on our LAN.Russ Calderon,
Network Analyst
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