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Subject: Re: Printing with a firewall or VPN
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> Does anyone have any ideas on how to print when the user is a
> telecommuter on a NT box, without a fixed IP address?

We use ice.lp from James River.  It uses tcp port 2346 which you can
redirect to localhost on a client using ssh.  Your client with dynamic IP
polls print jobs from the server by querying 127.0.0.1/2346.

Buddy Z

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