VPN - Remote printing and saving *silly question*

[mc_blue]

Hello all,

Sorry to bother you with another (silly) question.

Basically, I use a VPN via Remote Desktop and see what I would see at work. How would I go about establishing local printing and saving - ie - I can print and save docs to my home PC from work.

Regards

[BliarOut]

Open your Remote Desktop Connection. Before you log on click on Options > Local Resources and select printers.

Job's a good un.

[David Godfrey]

above will work great unless the server admin has dissabled the options on the server.

[deckster]

You may well be onto a loser before you start - all my work machines have been firewalled to hell and back and won't touch any home network with a bargepole. They'll speak to the router but that's it; pain in the arse but there you go.

[mc_blue]

BliarOut said:

Open your Remote Desktop Connection. Before you log on click on Options > Local Resources and select printers.

Job's a good un.

Thanks for the quick replies.

That's already enabled however - am I being really thick here? Should it be displayed with the other printers - I've tested and can print in Brum from here but not on my local device.

Regards

[BliarOut]

It should be, but as has been said above it sounds like your admin is a meanie and has disabled it

Before going any further it would make sense to check with them that it's actually enabled.

[mc_blue]

Will do - thanks.

[SneakyNeil]

The driver for your local printer needs to be installed on the remote desktop machine also, it doesn't always do it for you. If the driver is installed the printer will appear in the normal place when you connect, if it isn't it won't.