So Laptop is wireless and using VPN to offsite location<br>Desktop and printer are wired<br>All 3 are using the same wired/wireless router.<br><br>Desktop prints and laptop loses VPN connection.<br><br>I would suspect a router issue over printer. Maybe the print connection is flaky or the protocol is broken.<br>
Is the printer setup using Avahi (apple calls the auto-discovery something else)? The discovery protocol may be trying to probe the laptop to see if it's a printer and the only way the laptop can respond is to drop the VPN.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 3/30/2011 12:45 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> Interesting - are you sure the printer, desktop and laptop all have<br>
> separate IPs on the router? (That is have your reverified the IP on<br>
> each before trying the print?) Is the VPN being established by the<br>
> laptop or by the router itself?<br>
><br>
</div> my desktop is 192.168.10.100<br>
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printer 192.168.10.102<br>
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laptop 192.168.10.101<br>
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I just checked. I was able to use the web & go to:<br>
<a href="http://192.168.10.102:80" target="_blank">http://192.168.10.102:80</a> and get the Samsung admin page..<br>
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