The fact that you set the office printer up as peer-to-peer LPR is fine.
The instructions I gave address exactly that configuration.

If I understand you correctly, the laptop is the only workstation connecting
you your router at the office. If that's the case and you find it too
confusing, forget about assigning it a static address for now. It's DHCP
assigned address isn't likely to change which was the concern.

- To install the Brother printer driver at home bring the printer CD home or
download the driver from Brother. (If the CD runs a setup program rather
than allowing just pointing to the driver, you may be better off to download
it.) In Printers and Faxes run Add Printer. Specify local printer
attached to this computer and uncheck Automatically detect and Install
....... Choose LPT1 as the port, ...Have disk ... point to the driver
location... In other words, you install it as if it were physically
connected to that computer except that you prevent plug and play detection.
- At the office follow the steps in my initial post - Share the printer on
the laptop, determine the laptops IP address with ipconfig, and run the net
use command as specified.

Maybe this will be clearer with a little explanation. If the office printer
were connected directly to the office PC (instead of connecting by Ethernet
to your router) Remote Desktop printing would work solely by virtue of
having a matching driver on both computers. It would send the print stream
to the local LPT or USB port. Since the printer is connected to your office
network instead, what we are doing is using your office PC to intercept the
print traffic and reroute it through your network. This is done by the
Printer Pooling facility in Windows XP whereby, in this case, the print data
stream is captured to the LPT port and forwarded to the printer through your
network.

I hope that helps.
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"cfman" <comtech.usa******.com> wrote in message
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> "GTS" <x> wrote in message news:uX65h3CFHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> 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.
>
>
> Hi GTS,
>
> I have also a question regarding this step.
>
> I have only one incoming LAN connection in my office so I use a wireless
> router(linksys).
>
> The printer is connected to the wireless router's local Ethernet socket;
> the PC O is connecting with the router wirelessly; the incoming LAN
> connection is connected to the wireless router through the Internet
> socket.
>
> Thus we use the router's DHCP capacity.
>
> There is no static IP address for the laptop PC O;
>
> What can I do then?
>
> Thanks a lot
>