remote printing question

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Wed Apr 4 20:03:03 UTC 2007


At 01:56 PM 4/4/2007, David Banning wrote:
>I have a someone who wants to have a remote printer without using a
>server at the printing location. Is it possible to do;
>
>DSL Line->Modem -> router -> printer
>                      |
>               -----------------
>               |               |
>            laptop           laptop
>
>Their sales oriented operation is mostly take-away laptops, but they
>want the printing to come into the office during their absence but
>don't see the need to have a server to service just the printer.


Just get a printer with a built-in ethernet and set it to a static IP on 
the LAN side of the router.

         -Derek 
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