[X4U] printing from 125 miles away?

[James S Jones]

Assuming you have printer sharing, and, perhaps, certain other things 
turned on and the iBook and teenager are authorized on your network 
(and the teen knows the appropriate IP address and ports), it seems 
perfectly plausible that the iBook sent the print job from the dorm. 
Here's what the Sharing --> Firewall panel says about printer sharing:

"When you turn on Printer Sharing in the Services pane, you also allow 
the service access through the firewall on the indicated ports. To stop 
access through the firewall you must turn off this service using the 
Services pane."

On Dec 13, 2004, at 6:05 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:

> The other morning I found a nice note from my teenager on the printer. 
> The only odd thing was that iBook used to print the note was 125 miles 
> away at the time.
>
> I set up the iBook to use my local printer and I do have an Airport. 
> The office network, printer and Airport, are behind a firewall. My 
> teenager took the iBook to school and was in the dorm when the note 
> was printed.
>
> How could the iBook have located and communicated with the HP printer? 
> Where would you start looking?
>
> P.S. This may be a prank that I am falling for. Wouldn't be the first 
> time. :-)