Internet access to printer

[delanvital]

I have a printer here at the LAN we would like to share over the WAN. The printer has a built in print server which we use. The print server is very basic and does not support IPP and there is no upgrade to such for it. So I am stuck since that rules out any direct sharing over TCP/IP...

My plan B is this: We have an old inkjet which could do the job. I have installed that on one of the office machines here directly via USB (there is no server, but this machine is the closest to it. It runs close to 24/7 which would be enough)... but I don't like it. To me it seems that the machine would be too vulnerable. So - is there a clever way to access a printer over the internet, when sharing it on a regular Windows XP machine. Some clientside software would be okay, and a full login client-side is no problem - the ones in need of access to the printer have full access here anyway. Oh, and when logging in or whatever the solution could be, it must not interfere with the user sitting in front of the machine, if possible.

Any ideas would be much appreciated  

Edit: Perhaps SSHwindows as mentioned earlier in combination with some other software? I have no experience with that at all

[Penfold]

Logmein lets you print to a remote printer over the net but it's going to interfere with the user I guess

//www.logmein.com

PEN

[Anonymous]

any use?