[ale] weird printer problem

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Wed Mar 30 11:06:47 EDT 2011


On 3/30/2011 9:36 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> VPN takes over your networking stack.   Your IP when you're on VPN is
> likely not seen as 192.168.10.101.   Try logging into another system and
> running "who am i" while on VPN and you'll see your VPN IP address.
> (Or run lsof -i to see what connections are coming out of your laptop -
> those should have the IP address or hostname - if they have the latter
> nslookup/host/dig will show you the IP associated with the name.)
>
> Since you're initiating the print from the laptop it is probably trying
> to assert the 192 IP at that point so is knocking the VPN connection off
> line.   

no, I am not initiating the print job FROM the laptop. I am using my
HOME DESKTOP to print to the Samsung, but it knocks my LAPTOP off the
VPN connection.

-- 
Paul Cartwright



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