Transcript TWO Configuration Slides - Tax

Connecting to TWO
Some Sample Configurations
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For Traveling Laptops
Several Printer Options
Multiple possibilities
Minimal Changes from Site to Site
It would seem simple, but……..
Connecting directly to the site’s wireless
network poses a few problems (printing,
mostly).
Site’s
Network
???
Printer Sharing is NOT
permitted for security
reasons.
Wireless printers pose
addressing problems.
This is the current “stand alone’ configuration.
We use an inexpensive wireless router to
support sharing of a network printer. WPA-2
encryption is used.
Traditional Configuration used at many
sites for wireless printer sharing.
Ethernet
AARP Router/Firewall
AARP Network Printer
(Wired)
AARP
Wireless
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.
This is the current “stand alone’ configuration.
We use an inexpensive wireless router to
support sharing of a network printer. WPA-2
encryption is used.
Traditional Configuration used at 12
sites for wireless printer sharing.
AARP Router/Firewall
AARP Network Printer
(Wireless)
AARP
Wireless
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.
This is the current “stand alone’ configuration.
We use an inexpensive wireless router to
support sharing of a network printer. WPA-2
encryption is used.
Traditional Configuration used at sites
with “non network” printers.
DLink DP-G310
Print Server
AARP Router/Firewall
Ethernet
AARP
USB
Printer with USB port
only.
Wireless
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.
This is the current “stand alone’ configuration.
We use an inexpensive wireless router to
support sharing of a network printer. WPA-2
encryption is used.
Traditional Configuration used at a site
with an old Brother (HL-5140) printer.
AARP Network Printer
(Brother 2170W)
AARP Router/Firewall
AARP
Wireless
USB Cable
This PC must have
Printer Sharing Enabled
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.
Configuration used at where connection is available.
This is the preferred configuration!
This configuration has our router
connected directly to the local
Ethernet network. It requires a Cat5 outlet in the proximity of the room
where we do taxes, and requires a
single IP address, either static or
assigned by DHCP.
Internet Connection
Local Center
Router
Local Site Wired Ethernet
RJ-45 Plug in
Site’s wireless
network
Router “WAN” Port
Ethernet
AARP Router/Firewall
AARP Network Printer
AARP
Wireless
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.
Internet Connection
Local Center
Router
Where a wired Ethernet connection is not
available, this configuration uses the local
center’s wireless Internet. It’s based on
a specific router type.
Existing
Center
Wireless
AARP Router/Firewall
AARP Network Printer
Could be wired also.
Running DD-WRT.
AARP
Wireless
Shared USB Printer
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.
Sometimes a site network requires a
specific sign-on. Agree to terms, click ok,
stuff like that. The network PC must
connect first.
Restricted
Network
AARP
Router
AARP
Wireless
Network
WAN Port
PC With Network
Sharing Enabled.
Logged into local
network
LAN Port
Network Printer
w/ fixed IP address
(could be wireless)
Client PCs logged
Into AARP Network
Restricted
Network
Windows 7 contains a “virtual network”
facility that allows you to define a “new”
network for your TaxAide computers with
its own SSID and password and IP
addresses.
AARP
Wireless
Network
Network PC
PC With Virtual
Network and
Sharing Enabled.
Logged into local
network
All network devices will be in
the 192.168.137.x network,
unless you change it in the
Windows registry.
Printer can be reached from
The “network” PC.
Client PCs logged
Into AARP Network
Windows 7 contains a “virtual network”
Facility that allows you to define a “new”
network for your TaxAide computers.
Internet Connection
Local Center
Router
Local Site Wired Ethernet
RJ-45 Plug in
AARP
Wireless
Network
Network PC
PC With Virtual
Network and
Sharing Enabled.
Logged into local
network
Printer can be reached from
The “network” PC.
Client PCs logged
Into AARP Network
Where no Internet access of any kind
Is available, AARP might spring for
a cell based connection.
The “Hotspot” is essentially a wireless
network router with cell-phone like access
to a data network. There is no “wired”
connection, so the printer has to be
wireless.
Sprint, or AT&T or
Verizon, or whatever
Hotspot
AARP Network Printer
Could be wired also.
AARP
Wireless
Usually 3 to 8 laptops.