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Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by Adam

Adam — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:10:07 +0000

@Becky – the only difference would be that you need to identify the IP address of your printer rather than the print server (I’m assuming it has an IP when connected to your router).

Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by Becky

Becky — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:21:20 +0000

Adam….thank you…I am having this problem and think I can follow the directions, but my printer is hooked directly to my router and I share it with all the devices in my household. Before I begin trying, do you have any suggestions on how to modify your directions. Thanks!

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rob — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 04:55:34 +0000

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Comment on Fixing Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Endless Reboot Issue by Steve Thomas

Steve Thomas — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:15:28 +0000

Similar to my own experiences. My own system refused to start after a reboot. Not a POST nor a flash of LED. I dismantled the system completely down to retail components and returned all parts to manufacturers. Some 8 weeks later, all parts returned with 100% health though Gigabyte changed the X58A for a newer model.
One rebuild later, the system worked without issue for another 8 weeks until the same symptom arose.
Looks like the CPU and Mobo interface is the issue as reseating CPU fixes my dilemma.

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joelogon — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:59:07 +0000

Me, as well. Except for the “again”

Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by glenn

glenn — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:59:52 +0000

Thanks for this, helped me out…

I have a local printer setup on my LAN and connect direct to the printer via the printer’s IP address, so no print server (I suppose I am the print server

The command I need to use is: route -p add “Printer’s IP” mask 255.255.255.255 “my PCs IP”

If I put my gateway it does not work, but because I am putting my NIC’s IP for the gateway, it knows to send all traffic for the printers address out my NIC.

However, every time I login to my VPN again it sets a static route for the printer’s IP to go via the VPN gateway I can manually remove the route but when I connect to the VPN the next time it sets this static route to the printer again with the VPN gateway.

Currently I have created a .bat file that when run, removes the static route for the printer to the VPN gateway. But this is a work-around more than a fix.

Does anyone know how to prevent this?

Thanks in advance…

Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by Albert

Albert — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:07:11 +0000

Adam,

Forget the previous comment from me. It turns out that in Windows 2008 and later, the route command can only create routes until the next reboot….
Microsoft is said to advise the the use of netsh.

So, to use netsh and accomplish the same you need:
netsh interface ipv4>add route 192.168.1.103/32 "Local Area Connection" 192.168.1.1
and to find out the string part, you need the interface name:
netsh interface>show interface

netsh is quite complex, too much to explain in a comment. But after a reboot, the route seems to hold.

Split VPN… No, not there yet. I am already happy that it is a Windows 7 machine.

Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:19:40 +0000

@Albert – thanks – I always statically assign my more permanent machines, so I didn’t consider this. I have also moved to a company that allows me to use a split VPN where this only happens if you go to great lengths to do so (default settings allow you to keep your home network working as normal). Hence I have not had to re-do this since Windows 7 came out

Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by Albert

Albert — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:13:17 +0000

Adam,

I have bookmarked your page because I need this page whenever things change on the office laptop(about once a year). In the beginning I also had to use it whenever there was a power dip at home.
Two remarks:
1. It is beneficial if the printer does not use DHCP but has a fixed IP address. Then, when there is a powerout/dip at home, at least the home printer doesn’t change address. I also gave the computer where the printer puts the scans on a fixed IP address, for the same purpose.
2. Under Windows 7 I found that the route command is not good at guessing the interface. So, you have to provide an interface number which is shown at the top of the route print output. The right interface is the interface that holds the default gateway you are using (in your example 192.168.1.1, which is shown as interface 0×2)
Hence the command would be:
route -p add 192.168.1.103 mask 255.255.255.255 192.168.1.1 if 0x2

Comment on Home Printing – Connected to a VPN by David

David — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:32:32 +0000

Adam,

The issue is not the home network.
We have an office that uses VPN to connect to our corporate office over comcast.
We have local printers on our in-house network. Very small network. One router behind the cable modem with laptop PC’s and printers attached.
The problem is that we cannot print to the local printers when we are on VPN unless I add the route command. This is fine as long as our IP address stays static, but we have dynamic IP’s so we can go to our clients office or home. When we come back to the office our IP could be different again.
Any suggestions?