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QUESTION POSED ON: 16 July 2004
My PCs have local printers, but when they are working across the VPN (using terminal services) they have trouble seeing their printers. Some PCs never see their printer, others always do and some are intermittent. What is the best way to set up a printer on a VPN?

I have not heard of this issue before, but after a quick search (using the myITforum browser toolbar), I did find the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles:

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