Q: Printing to a Local Printer while using a Remote Mac via Screen Sharing
Hi Everyone,
I am trying to work out this issue. We have an office where some staff work remotely, connecting from their Mac at home to their office iMac through the built-in VNC / ScreenSharing function to use some specialist software. There is a need to print using this software, but the users want to print to their home printer, not the printer that's available in the office. As their remotely connected to the office iMac, I would imagine that to print to the home or another remotely-connected printer we would need to add that printer to the work iMac as a printer itself. I imagine that port forwarding would help here.
Is there any simple way to allow a user that's connected remotely to print through Screen Sharing the the physical mac that they're using, rather than the printers that are connected to the iMac they are connecting to?
I know the question is tricky to ask correctly, sorry about that. I've attached an image to help. Any help and guidance very much appreciated.
Thank you.
Tim
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.4)
Posted on Feb 21, 2016 7:58 PM
