Samba and Printers via VPN and masquerade

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi Everyone

I have setup a VPN to connection to a remote server. On the remote VPN server I am masquerading the samba tcp/udp ports 137,138 and 139 to a samba server on the remote lan. I have setup a printer via cups which i am then publishing through the samba server. Locally I can see the printer when browsing with the unc path to the printers and faxes folder. The drivers have been loaded onto the server to allow the user to right click --> connect to install the printer onto the pc. When accessing over the VPN I am able to browse all the network shares apart from the printers and faxes folder, so therefore unable to print remotely (my understanding is that access to the printer is via smb!)

I am looking at the firewall logs whilst doing this and see no dropped packets

Can anyone help ?

TIA

Steve

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

cups uses port 631, your VPN may have a problem with that.

If thats not the issue then check the properties of the shares locally and look for inconsistenecies as far as user/group permissions.

SEP

[steven Burgess_2]

Hi,

Whilst cups uses port 631, the printer is shared via samba.

I could not find a resolution so have therefore set the printer up as a local device to the PC and masqueraded port 631 to the printer. This has worked

Thanks for the pointer

Steve