Re: Required PPTP breaks domain printers

Unfortunately making this change breaks the terminal services connection.

"Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]" <hhh@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:u%23o5LtLeHHA.208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
The PPTP connection is probably set to use the default gateway on the remote
network. When this is set (and it is the default setting for new
connections), your client's PCs will look for everything either on the
remote domain or through this domain's default gateway. Try disabling this
setting; the result should be that anything required from Terminal Services
will be routed through the PPTP connection, while everything else will be
sought on your local network (printers) or through the default gateway on
your local network (the Internet). Right click the PPTP connection, select
"Properties", go to the "Networking" tab, click "Internet Protocol", click
the "Properties" button, click the "Advanced" button, and UNcheck the "Use
default gateway on remote network" checkbox.

Hal
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"Bill Hobson" <Ihatespamb-hobson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have a small group of clients who connect to another domain via a PPTP
connection and Terminal Services, that I have no control over. They are
required to use the PPTP VPN connection before they can make the terminal
services connection. I have no control over these restrictions.

The PPTP connection breaks connection to their printers on my print
server,
so the remote administrators added these same printers to their print
server
so they can print from terminal services. The terminal services connection
does not allow the clients to use the internet - period. So these clients
use the internet from their desktops instead - the gotcha comes in when
they
try to print, which is blocked as long as they are running PPTP, which
means
they have to logoff of terminal services and kill their PPTP connection
every time they want to print something from the internet, like Mapquest
maps, for instance. There folks travel quite a bit, so this is a major
hassle to do this several times a day.

I found I could manually add the printers to the other domain's print
server, but the connection is lost every time they reboot. None of the
utilities I have tried will make the connection the the foreign print
server.

I have used con2prt.exe and Prnmngr.vbs and they both error without
connecting.

Anyone have a suggestion to get around this draconian security
arrangement?




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