Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2017 20:13 Post subject: Printer on WAN
I have a Linksys WRT54GL v1.1 running DD-WRT v3.0-r33006 mini (08/03/17). It is a secondary router that provides internet only to lan/wlan devices connected through it. It is hard wired to my primary working network switch.
I want to be able to print from the secondary network to a printer on my primary network. I know how to use port forwarding to go from a primary device to a secondary printer, but I am lost in going the other direction. Any help in the right direction is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for the reply jxm.
I do understand I can setup that way, but I do not have dhcp on my primary network and I will need it for the computers connecting to the secondary network. I was hoping to keep the primary and secondary networks separate (and use something along the lines of port forwarding for the printers), but I am open to configuring as an access point if I can:
A. block access to all "WAN" devices and
B. Allow access to a WAN printer and
C. Provide DHCP to all secondary router clients.
Yea, what Per Yngve Berg says will work.
or if using local DNS on main network you should be able to access printer by its name.domain .... need to have 'No DNS Rebind' disabled on the WRT54GL for this to work.
Sorry all, I thought the forum would email me about replies. I have that turned on now.
I believe the clients will all be windows machines and the printers are Ricoh Aficio models. I have a Ricoh on an access point where I used port forwarding with the ip address and port 9100. It works great.
I will attempt the other suggestions tomorrow and let you know how it went.
So as it turns out I needed to add the printer by IP address and leave the default port of 9100. I also went in to the router and changed the "no dns rebind" to disabled and "Local DNS" to enabled. Print jobs are completing as expected. Thanks everybody for the assistance.
