On Saturday 11 October 2008 15:12, Kai Ponte wrote:
I have an odd question. I don't really *need* this but I wonder if it can be done.
I often telecommute to work. Particularly in the evenings, I work at home. I can either load a VM - such as - Vista or work directly.
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Now the question - every once in a while, I decide I need to print something locally.
I currently share a printer with my wife's computer (Windows 2000 Pro) over SMB.
Is there any way I can run on the vpn with my corporate network yet attach locally to my home connection?
Do I need to create a proxy or something?
I'm not sure how close this comes to being a solution nor whether it's an available option for you (you don't say which version of VMware you're using, e.g., Workstation vs. Server, nor which of the 17 Vista versions you're using). Anyway, the simple observation is that with VMware workstation, at least, you can configure any number of virtual network adaptors with separate MAC addresses (naturally) and then use whatever guest OS capabilities exist for handling multiple network adaptors. So it seems at least plausible that you could configure one (virtual) adaptor to connect to your VPN and another to connect to your home LAN and thence access your SMB-based print server.
-- kai
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