We have a unique situation where our organization's main office, running on Windows Server 2003 needs to be able to print to a printer at a remote satellite location. I setup a Windows XP Pro desktop at the remote location and connected to the server via VPN. I have direct access to all server services from the remote desktop, no problem. I directly connected the printer via USB to the remote desktop and shared it. I can print to the printer from the remote desktop no problem. From the main office server, I can find the shared printer in the directory, but cannot connect to it -- when I try, I get a 'Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost it's connection to the server' error. I get the same error if I tried to directly specify the name of the printer as \\desktopname\printershare. Any ideas?
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