Brian, We are using OpenVPN 2.0 and it is working well. We use both the Linux and Windows clients; the VPN server is a Debian box.
http://openvpn.sourceforge.net/ The larger question I think is whether you want people printing to printers they can't see. If there is a jam, low toner, etc., it can be a little tricky to address the situation appropriately. For instance, what if a page prints with no toner? Will the user on the warehouse end be able to reprint the order? Obviously, since these are orders, none can be lost! Maybe the answer is to create a document repository, where the warehouse users can view, print and reprint. Bob Shepherd --- Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, > The company for which I work is spooling up to open a distribution > warehouse on the west coast. The prevailing idea of how to handle orders > seems to be to continue taking orders here in the east coast facility, and > pass the appropriate orders along to the west coast warehouse for shipping. > The thought that has been prevalent has been to set up a remote printing > situation in which our sales staff can take orders here, click Print, and > automagically the order prints on a printer in California. > This sounds to me like a prime candidate for VPN. In order to simplify > things on this end, I was considering using our linux server to maintain the > VPN connection and printer share, then share that printer internally among > all the workstations (i.e. the workstations simply think they're printing to > the linux host; only the linux machine knows the printer is on the other end > of a vpn tunnel). > Is this a sane idea? Is there a better way to achieve this goal? I've > never set up a VPN before; are there any certain gotchas out for which I > ought to look? > > Thanks grandly, > ~Brian > > > ---------------- > Brian A. Henning > Strutmasters.com > 866.597.2397 > ---------------- > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
