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Access my home network printer while I am using VPN to connect to work
When I work from home, I am connected to the resources in my company via VPN. In my home network there is a network printer in the same local network.
The problem is that when I open VPN to my ...
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Is it possible to find a printer's physical location in a building by its IP adress?
I am in a school with probably 200+ computers and I did an IP scan among a certain range and found three or four printers. I was wondering if it would be possible to find these printers in the school, ...
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Prevent Network Printers Automatically being added to 'Devices and Printers' in Windows 7
I think my question is a duplicate of this one, but the original question was never properly answered (the steps described are for Windows XP).
I am aware of the option to "Turn off Network Discovery"...
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Why can't I map a network drive if I can ping the server?
I have a server running Windows 2003 R2 SP2. I can ping it from any computer on the network. My problem is that it acts as a file and print server, but none of the other computers on the network can ...
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How do I monitor network traffic for IPP (LPD/LPR)?
I'm writing an application that sends print jobs over IPP to an LPR print server. I need a way to monitor the traffic going between that server and my development box. Right now I'm just sending jobs ...
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Windows 7, Printer is unavailable until PC reboot
We are having a problem that I haven't seen before and can find no answers to online.
A desktop running Windows 7 is unable to print using network printers. When the user tries, no matter what ...
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Print job owner info?
Print queue shows HomeGroupUser$ as owner instead of network computer name or user name of the said network computer.
I'm looking to pause print jobs using the computer name; and then manually resume ...
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Restricting certain printers to certain programs
At my place of business, we use desktop PCs as Point-of-Sale units as well as workstations. We have two networked laser printers (standard letter size) in the office as well as receipt printers at ...
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Connecting two LANs via WIFI where each has its own internet access with OpenWRT
starting point are 2 seperate consumer LANs with seperate consumer grade WLAN modems. LAN2 is my neighbor, LAN1 is my own home-LAN. Whenever he wants to access my NAS or printer he has to log into my ...
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Windows 7 computer doesn't see wireless printer unless router is rebooted
I have a Dell laptop running Windows 7. It is directly connected to a Zhone combination DSL modem/router. I also have an Epson all-in-one printer connected wirelessly to the router.
Most of the time ...
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what makes a printer a printer in a network?
I am scanning a network using nmap. I assume that this network has copy machines and printers with IP addresses. Is there a way I can differentiate the regular computers from the printers? nmap can ...
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Network printer prints gibberish
Throughout the day my network printer spits out a page that has a single line of characters at the top of the page. I used the navigator on the printer to pull up the print history and for all the ...
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Virtualbox share guest (windows xp) printer to host(linux)
I have a weird situation.
I own a printer that has 0 support in linux, but of course, it works in windows. So I have installed VirtualBox 3.1.2 with guest additions to provide access to my usb devices....
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Canon printer does not print over the network at times
We've been having this printing issue for the last two months where the printer stops taking prints over the network at a certain point. Each and every time we need to reset the printer by powering it ...
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Is a server or DC server required for a network printer?
I'm in the process of building, more like designing a small network for home. We currently have approximately 6 computers that can operate in the house. Unfortunately, all of these computers share one ...
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