RE: what's with VPN trashing my network printer?

Take a look at your routes and IP addresses when you are hooked up to
your VPN.  The VPN tunnel should only be passing IP traffic for that
network.  Provide the VPN network is different than your local network,
the VPN client should ignore the local traffic and permit local IP
printing.  What does your PRINT ROUTE say?


Best Regards

Fritz Hayes
Atwater Associates

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|
| I think you're right that when you're hooked up via VPN, you belong to
| that
| network for the duration. I've had that happen to me here when I work
from
| home. Fortunately, the printer is close by, and if I need to print
|
|
| > I use MS DUN with the VPN adapter (PPTP) to establish my VPN tunnel
to
| an
| > iDSL router so I can then start a display and printer session to an
| AS400.
| > If I then use MS Word or whatever PC software and try to print to a
| network
| > printer it can't find the network printer.  I'm on Win98SE.
| >
| > Seems to be ditto with Windows Explorer?
| >
| > Am I just on a different and mutually exclusive network?