The printer is required to be on the same LAN as Bambu Studio

Bambu Lab Software
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A few firmware/software revisions back, I was able to send prints from both my home computer and my work computer. Then, something changed in an update and I receive the error below from any system not on my home network.
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Can we get this feature returned? Maybe institute a 2FA for systems not on the same network? This was actually quite useful back when it was working.

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Do you have the printer in LAN mode? The only way you will be able to send prints to it from outside your network (work) is to use the cloud service.

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No, Lan Only is disabled.

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LAN is the Local Area Network. Local equals at home only. If you want to print from outside via Studio, use thecloud mode (the other mode).

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Yes, that is why it is disabled on the printer. I am currently using the Cloud mode. I still receive the above message when attempting to send a sliced file from Bambu Studio to my printer.

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Did you ever solve this? I have 3 printers and 1 (A1 Mini) randomly gets this error and the other 2 are fine. I’m using OrcaSlicer, but I get the exact same message (just replacing the slicer names).

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I did not, sadly. Do you see that error while on the same network as the printers?

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Any updates on this? I just got the printer (X1 carbon combo) last week, and this is just strange.

I also can’t upload to my cloud account without answering a lot of questions about licensing and questions if I have printed the thing… like I wanted to publish the model. Which I’m not interested in at the moment.

My Creality printer+slicer let med do all of these things without any problems. Upload to the cloud, in the cloud/web select what I want to print. Start the print-job. Here I’m not even allowed to send it to the SD-card on the printer remotely. It’s just strange. It obviously waits for my printer to come online as I can select it, and that is not possible when the wifi at the other location is down.
Models that I find in the cloud service have no problem downloading to the printer even though it is remote… but my Bambu Studio on Windows refuses… !?

Must be a bug in the program… or? it asks for my IP-adress on the LAN.

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Short - It works with a VPN-connection!

I tried an already existing Open VPN connection from my computer to the place were my printer is, and then I could enter the IP-address of the printer and Voila! it actually worked, even though I am now at home and my printer is at another location.