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From: Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printing over VPN
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 03:50:53
Message-Id: 20150214035112.GE26565@syscon7
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] printing over VPN by Joseph
1 On 02/13/15 20:44, Joseph wrote:
2 >On 02/13/15 22:17, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 >>On 02/13/2015 09:50 PM, Joseph wrote:
4 >>> I have a hard time finding any documentation on how to print over VPN.
5 >>>
6 >>> I have a network printer and I would like to setup my laptop to print to it over VPN.
7 >>> The remote VPN IP address is: 192.168.151.1
8 >>> The printer IP is: socket://10.0.0.105
9 >>> and lpd://10.0.0.106/BINARY_P1
10 >>>
11 >>> I think I need some entries in VPN config files isn't it?
12 >>>
13 >>
14 >>Does the VPN server also have a 10.0.0.x address? If so, you just need
15 >>to tell the VPN clients that they can reach the 10.0.0.x network via the
16 >>VPN, i.e. by routing through your VPN server.
17 >>
18 >>We have pretty much the same setup, with our VPN server sitting on
19 >>10.1.1.1 with some other private IP address. This is the client config
20 >>for the OpenVPN server:
21 >>
22 >> # cat /etc/openvpn/client-config/DEFAULT
23 >> push "route 10.1.1.0 255.255.255.0"
24 >>
25 >>Then you point to that in openvpn.conf (also on the server):
26 >>
27 >> # grep client-config /etc/openvpn/openvpn.conf
28 >> client-config-dir client-config
29 >>
30 >>After that, any new client connections will just know that 10.1.1.x can
31 >>be reached over the VPN.
32 >
33 >Thank for replying.
34 >
35 >My eeepc VPN IP: 192.168.151.9 is the client connected over VPN to server VPN IP 192.168.151.1
36 >
37 >So I inserted on eeepc (client) to /etc/openvpn/eeepc.conf
38 >...
39 > push "route 192.168.151.0 255.255.255.0"
40 >
41 >On a server 192.168.151.1 I have file:
42 >/etc/openvpn/server.conf
43 >/etc/openvpn/ccd/eeepc
44 >
45 >in /etc/openvpn/ccd/eeepc is:
46 >ifconfig-push 192.168.151.9 255.255.255.0
47 >
48 >Do I add to "eeepc"
49 >client-config-dir ???
50 >
51 >Which file on a server do I modify?
52
53 One more question.
54
55 Do I modify on a client eeepc file:
56
57 /etc/cups/client.conf
58
59 and add:
60 ServerName 192.168.151.1:631
61
62 --
63 Joseph

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Re: [gentoo-user] printing over VPN Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>