Share from different subnet

[howhao]

Here is what I have.

I have a cisco router, which gets a T1 line, and it connects to a hub.

There are three things connected to the hub, two of them connect directly to two machines, and a Firewall device which DHCPs for the whole office.

My computer is one of those two machines directly connected to the hub, and the printer is shared from a computer behind the firwall. So I have a Static IP address from the router, and the computer with the printer has an internal IP address assigned by the DHCP in the firewall...

How do i get access to the printer?

 

[routerman]

In this case you would need to use WINS to resolve the name of the printer to its DHCP assigned address. The WINS server needs to be on the LAN with the PC/printer.

Also the firewall filtering would need to allow your WINS traffic and also the DHCP assigned address for the printer.

However as this address is dynamic, the firewall would have to let in any possible DHCP address, as you dont know what address the printer/PC will be allocated. This is why you need WINS.

If ypu could use a static address fot the PC/printer then you could use LMHOST's on your local PC, or simply connect to the IP address of the PC rather than the machine name.