Printing to an LPR printer from a Remote desktop guest is a little tricky.

Firstly, install the printer driver as a non-plug and play local printer on
the host (PC H).

On the guest (PC O) this is what you need to do (I'm assuming the printer
driver is already installed on this guest PC) :
- In printer properties on the guest Share the printer and assign a share
name. (This seems counter intuitive but is required to set up printer
pooling.)
- Run ipconfig and note the guest PC's IP address.
NOTE - You should NOT be connected to RD at this point. Also, it
would be best to assign this PC a static address instead and use that.
- In a command prompt run >net use lpt3 \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\printer-sharename
/persistent:yes
(This could have been lpt 1 or 2 alternatively.)
- Check printer pooling and select lpt3 as well as the TCP/IP port (which I
assume is presently selected) for the ports.
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"cfman" <comtech.usa******.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>