As long as your printer works at home via IP (either directly or through Windows if you are sharing out a printer- do you have printer sharing turn on and the right firewall setting in Windows?) then printing over the VPN will work as long that traffic is not filters.
I have a Brother MFC printer on my office net and if I'm out of the office and need to print, I just bring up my VPN before I do it.
The same would be true for you RPi as a printer server. As long as you can print locally via IP and your VPN allows the traffic you should be fine.
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Keith C. Perry, MS E.E.
From: "john boris" <jborissr@gmail.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 10:22:07 AM
Subject: [PLUG] Setting up a Windows Printer to print to accept print jobs over VPN
I am setting up my home office and connect to $WORK via a VPN through the Dell Sonicwall Netextender. I would like to setup my home printer as a printer on the VPN network. Would it be possible to have the printer on my Windows 7 machine be available for my UNIX (SCO OpenServer) servers to print to. Our WAN guys say my account is setup that it should accept print jobs to the IP address I am assigned when I log into the VPN.
My issue is setting up the Windows 7 machine so the printer will be able to see the requests.
I installed the Unix Print services for Windows on my Windows machine and can see the LPR port available but when I go to set it up it asks for the ip address of the server. I am unsure if I put the IP of my WIndows machine or the IP I get when I connect to the VPN.
On the flip side I am wondering if I just try to use my Raspberry Pi as a print server connecting to my $WORK network with the VPN.
TIA
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