RE: IBMi Printer setup through VPN

Just to add one other possible kink...

Some VPN connections are configured to not allow the laptop to see home
network devices when connected and therefore ACS printers won't work either.

Anything I need to print while connected has to be "printed" as a .pdf which
I either email to myself and I print it with my personal laptop or I
disconnect from the VPN, print it, and then reconnect. Annoying no matter
which way I do it.



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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Larry
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Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 8:51 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
(WalzCraft) Jerry Forss <JForss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IBMi Printer setup through VPN

The problem you have here is that you are not creating a 'VPN Tunnel'
rather you are using a client VPN. As such the connection is only to your
workstation not to your network. Given that, there is no path from IBM i to
a printer on your home network directly.

So you can:

Create sessions in ACS that direct output to those printers, which I suspect
is what you are attempting to avoid.

Work with your company network team to establish a true tunnel.
Depending on the vendor used they may have small appliances that do exactly
that. Meraki for one has some very nice little boxes that are simple to set
up (Like 'plug in', 'connect', 'use' :-) ) and others do as well.

Personally I do this all the time but I AM the networking guy for my company
and have a Cisco Firewall at my home with a true tunnel back to our systems.

- DrF


On 3/26/2021 8:41 AM, (WalzCraft) Jerry Forss wrote:

Hi All,

Like a lot of people I have been working remotely for the past year.
Now it is a permanent situation.

I want to set up a couple of printers here at my home that are IBMi
Printers. (IP on the outq)

Is there a guide somewhere that can guide the network team on how that can

be done?

The trick is that through my home router the IP needed for the work

network does not want to play well.

I am currently using the Windows VPN Connection.

You know the old saying, "How many programmers does it take to screw in a

light bulb? None, it's a hardware problem."

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