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by mcse2kgrl

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We just build an NT Server that we put in the DMZ. I am wondering, we are trying to connect to a printer creating a printerport and opening a whole in the firewall to connect to it. We are able to see the job go in the printer, but it doesn't print.Can you specify more than one printserver for 1 printer (all drivers and everything works). Where did the job go? It didn't print to the file, it dissapeared in DMZ land.

Can you help?

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by some guy in seattle

You can have more than one printserver, but only if the printer ("print device", thanks Microsoft) is a device on the network in its own right, such as a jet direct printer. If the printer is actually attached to the LPT port of an NT server, then you are stuck with that one machine. Everything else spools off to that printserver, which then handles the interface to the printer.

You don't say if you see the job go to the printer in the printer spooler logs, or in the firewall logs. I would bet that you would need to open netbios services between the DMZ server and the printserver, but I wouldn't recommend opening that hole in your firewall. Better for security to get a printer for the DMZ and leave the netbios closed on the firewall.

Hope that helps,

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