On Nov 29, 12:02 am, "cfman" <comtech....******.com> wrote:
> HI all,
>
> I installed a Brother printer in office(hereafter I call PC O), and now I am
> remotely connecting back to my home(hereafter I call it PC H).
>
> On PC O, the printer was installed in a local LAN peer-to-peer printing
> mode, using LPR protocol.
>
> The remote desktop does not recognize this printer at all - on the PC H,
> when I want to print, actually I want it to print to this Brother printer on
> PC O. But it never had this option in the scroll-down list of the printer
> list.
>
> Is there a way I can let the remote PC H know that it should print via PC O
> to the Brother printer in my office?
>
> What's wrong with remote desktop?
>
> Do I need to install a virtual network printer on PC H, in order to use it
> to print to Brother printer in office? Since it was installed as
> peer-to-peer printing using LPR protocol, I am not sure how to install a
> printer driver on PC H for this Brother printer in my office...
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot

Have you enabled 'connect to client printers' in the Remote Desktop
client options (mstsc.exe 'Options>>") on PC O?