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Connecting Printer Wireless On Another Network

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pasqo83

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Hi,

I have a computer at home which I want to connect to my office. I need to connect the printer up as well. The printer is at my office. The printer is connected directly to my wireless router.

What I want to be able to do is connect my home computer so if I wanted to print (regardless of whether my office computer is on or not) I can do so at ease.

I know the connection between computers will be VPN but is the connection between the wireless printer to my home computer through the router?

Any help or quick guide will be much appreciated :)
 
You're gonna struggle if the printer isnt designed that way. HP have an eprint feature that works well. You just email the printer the print job.

Personally I don't think its doable but if it is, you may do well to provide your printer information.... make model...
 
I'm a little confused, so your printer is at the office or at home? You indicated that it's connected to the office but then it's connected to your wireless router which is reason for the confusion.


If you have a computer that has a local printer connected then this article may help. Print from a remote computer to your printer If not, then a little more clarification might help
 
It really doesn't matter how your printer is connected to the network. If you have your VPN routed correctly you should be able to accomplish what you're looking to do.

If the only reason to connect to the office network is for the printer then you can route directly to the printer. If you need access to your entire office network then you route your home PC to the whole subnet

For example, if your home subnet were 10.1.10.x and your office was 10.1.11.x and your printer's IP was 10.1.11.25 you'd route your home VPN to the printer with a mask of 255.255.255.254. If you wanted the whole subnet you'd route to 10.1.11.0 with a mask of 255.255.255.0.

Once you know your VPN is connected, then on the PC open a command prompt and see if you can ping the printer.
 
Thanks for your help everyone.

Sorry let me explain a bit further.

Just to clarify as well, I am doing this for a family member and not myself but I like these trivia's and plan to get it sorted.

Basically the printer is connect directly to my wireless router. The reason for this is when the computer is off, I can still see the printer (when I am in the office).

The printer is at the office, they do not have 1 at home, they take alot of their work home with them. To make it easier, they decided to print everything at work.

I will need to double check but I think their printer will be either HP or Epsom.

The VPN is a good idea, however if the computer is turned off then the VPN wont function as it has no connection to the other side.

I assumed that if the printer is connected to the wireless router. Log in externally to the wireless router (to get the details for the printer on the subnet) then they can print?

I was checking online just to get some sort of idea but alot of the information is connection through VPN.
 
First off, find out exactly what you are dealing with ie: make, model, etc. then enlighten the forum, without these pertinent facts it's hard to help you.
 
Actually, what lunatic said is correct. Since the family member will be using VPN to get into the network they will have access to all devices on the network, as long as the VPN is configured correctly to allow said access.
 
Well that depends. It sounds like a small office. It depends on the VPN. If the Office computer is the VPN "Server" it would have to remain on OR there is no way the printer could be contacted.

However if there is a VPN server or Firewall such as checkpoint, juniper etc, then as long as the printer is on the domain or pingable, it is possible.

Perhaps further detail needs to be supplied about the VPN solution?
 
That is true - we need more details. The first post already says that the connection to the computer will be via VPN from home to work computer, and since the computer sees the network, once you VPN into it you should see the same network devices as if you were physically at your computer. Then again, it depends upon settings, the software itself used, etc.
 
He does say that but he also said he wants to print when the computer is off. If the vpn is definitely like that, off will not be an option.

I still think HPeprint is the cheapest solution. I can print from any device with internet connectivity and the printer only cost
 
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