Question : Internet Printing between 2 windows XP Pro PC's

I have been told that it is possible to make our printers availible to clients in other cities via the internet, however we are unable to find any quality documentation for implementing this.  This microsoft document seems to say that it is possible:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prdl_pif_crxt.asp

We have computers in multiple cities that would like to print to these printers using the web interface described.  please help!

Answer : Internet Printing between 2 windows XP Pro PC's

What you will use is called IPP : Internet Printing Protocol.

How to Use IPP :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/internetprint.mspx

Basically when you install windows server 2k or 2k3, Internet Printing is setup as part of IIS and configured from the IIS Console. Then you create holes in your firewall / NAT rules to allow printing to happen over port 80/631. Anyway, its basically a bad idea as people can/will find your printers and mess with them. But let me know if you need more detail on setting it up.

- SaP -