Bridging on the client side?

Petra2201

I have a customer who has a strange setup. They have a windows 7 pro machine that they are using as RDP machine for a remote workstation. The client has a ip printer/scanner that they need the server to have access to? Is this even possible? Or would I have to reverse it so that the remote has a bridged network and the server would be able to see it?

THanks,

Aaron

undertakingyou

I am having the same issue and am wondering if you had any resolution.

Will--

Mimiko

You can make a bridge in the client, like bridging tun adapter with phisical adapter. But the problem will occur when other clients will connect and can get the same IP as some device on the first client's network, making an IP collision. So it must be very carefully.

Petra2201

I was afraid of that. Do you have any suggestions how to accomplish what I was asking? We have an ip based scanner on the client's side. they use a tunnel with RDP to connect to a server. They would like the RDP client to be able to access the ip scanner.

undertakingyou

Mimiko wroteYou can make a bridge in the client, like bridging tun adapter with phisical adapter. But the problem will occur when other clients will connect and can get the same IP as some device on the first client's network, making an IP collision. So it must be very carefully.

Mimiko: Thanks for your reply, I am wondering if you can give an example. I understand bridging, I am just trying to think of how the networking itself will work.

Currently, at the Client I have have something like the following:

Internet => Clients Switch (wireless or wired) => Client Machine (running OpenVPN) => USB Connected printer.

If I understand you right I would need to change to the following:

Internet => Clients Switch (wireless of wired) => Client machine (running OpenVPN) => Second switch, on second interface bridged to tun adapter => Network connected printer, which pulls DHCP from OpenVPN server.

Is that correct? Would that cause the printer to grab an IP address directly from the OpenVPN and not from the clients own switch?

Thanks, I appreciate your help.

Will--

Mimiko

It will be good to see a schematics of those components with scanner. I think simple routing setup is enough to use.