Wan/lan

Aidan Guy · 02-03-2005, 08:00 AM

In our office one user connects to another office via a WAN connection(he changes IP address), is there any way he can print to a printer that is on our LAN which he connects to when IP address is set to obtain automatically!

Any suggestions would be gratefully recieved,

thanks in advance

elf · 02-03-2005, 08:04 AM

If you can give the printer a static (non changing) ip, he can add the printer by the ip address. Is the printer hooked up through another machine, or is it on a print server?

Aidan Guy · 02-03-2005, 08:06 AM

The printer is attached to another machine on the LAN

Aidan Guy · 02-10-2005, 08:07 AM

Somehow after purchasing a new printer he can now print when connected to the WAN, still no internet/e-mail.

Note we also have a Cisco 801 ISDN router. This is where the line for the WAN comes in.

Any ideas how i can link the PC to this? It currently connects to a hub which is connected to our server

02-03-2005, 08:00 AM	#1 (permalink)
Aidan Guy Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 15 OS: Win 98	Wan/lan In our office one user connects to another office via a WAN connection(he changes IP address), is there any way he can print to a printer that is on our LAN which he connects to when IP address is set to obtain automatically! Any suggestions would be gratefully recieved, thanks in advance

02-03-2005, 08:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
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02-10-2005, 08:07 AM	#4 (permalink)
Aidan Guy Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 15 OS: Win 98	Partial solution Somehow after purchasing a new printer he can now print when connected to the WAN, still no internet/e-mail. Note we also have a Cisco 801 ISDN router. This is where the line for the WAN comes in. Any ideas how i can link the PC to this? It currently connects to a hub which is connected to our server

02-03-2005, 08:06 AM	#3 (permalink)
Aidan Guy Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 15 OS: Win 98	The printer is attached to another machine on the LAN