I'm not the one who was asking about printing to a printer on the server. I was just giving an example of the variety of uses that remote computing is making possible. We do, in fact, have our printers mapped across the VPN and we can print to the remote ones as if they were local on our system. When my wife has created a new sign and wants to print it at the store she uses the networked printers. But sometimes that's not what is needed. When an employee calls or sends an email saying "the Reg3 printer isn't working", I log onto Reg3 and work on it. I need to be able to use that printer locally. Still a different thing. If my wife is at the gift show and wants to print her orders at the store, she cannot do either of these things because there's no VPN between her laptop in the hotel and the store's LAN. But she has access to her computer in the store via VNC, and that would be a case where we would want to print on the server's printer. (Instead, she usually prints to PDFs because we don't like to waste paper. :-) So we don't need it, but I think the original poster's desire to print from his laptop onto the server's printer is quite reasonable. Does VNC work on iPhones? ...
--Brian M. Godfrey br...@wildbirdshop.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Toninho H 1 [mailto:feitosa_neto_...@hotmail.com] > Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 9:35 AM > To: br...@wildbirdshop.com; vnc-list@realvnc.com > Subject: Re: Personal VNC question > > Brian, > > It seems you have quite a good arrangement, and a great view from the > office > ;) > > as for the printing and VPN issue, I am not sure what you do need is in > fact > a terminal session provided by VNC or RDP. Network access (including > access > to the printers) is not the solution for your needs? > > If you can access the importante files on the servers disks, print to > the > required printers, or even access the outlook personal folders from the > boat, for an instance, would it let you do your work? > > VNC could be used just to systems administration and to access server´s > programs not available on the network, like the pos software... > > A VPN bridge like the one you can have with OpenVPN > (http://www.openvpn.net) > could give you the network printing and file access capabilities... > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Brian M. Godfrey" <br...@wildbirdshop.com> > Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 12:48 PM > To: <vnc-list@realvnc.com> > Subject: RE: Personal VNC question > > >> It's more common to want to print something locally from the server > to > >> which you're connected. > > > > This is actually very rare in our business. We frequently print > from > > our > > client computers onto the server's printers, but rarely the reverse. > I > > can > > also see how a salesperson or on-site technician might wish to print > > orders, > > reports, test results, etc., on the server's printers. > > The world is an incredibly complex place and remote computing means > > pretty much everything you can think of, someone is doing or trying > to do. > > We ran a Mom & Pop gift store on the north Oregon coast for 10 years, > then > > decided to start wintering in a sunnier climate. For the last six > years > > we > > have run our business part time from southern CA and the rest of the > time > > from a houseboat on a river about a two hour drive from our store. > Both > > locations are connected to the store by VPNs. My wife has a computer > in > > the > > store that is "hers". She logs into it in the morning and manages > the > > employees as if she were in the store because she can see every sale > that > > occurs as it occurs. She can then suggest ways to re-arrange the > > merchandise to fill in the "hole" left by a tapestry or painting that > is > > sold. She can keep tabs on inventory and watch the sales, looking > for a > > lull when she can ask for physical counts. She can re-order > important > > merchandise as soon as it sells. Etc. When she is in the store she > gets > > too caught up in the fray to do this kind of oversight. This is why > we've > > done fine during the recession while other stores in our area are > dying > > off > > right and left. And I can look out the window to my left and see the > > river, > > the herons, the boats and so on. > > > > --Brian M. Godfrey > > br...@wildbirdshop.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > VNC-List mailing list > > VNC-List@realvnc.com > > To remove yourself from the list visit: > > http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list > > _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
