Mac, VM XP Pro, Cisco VPN, and Printing.

I have an end user running a Mac with a VM XP Pro Machine that connects to our corperate VPN. This part works just fine. The problems come up when he tries to print to a local network printer. The job just sits until he disconnects from the VPN and then it prints just fine. Does anyone know what to do to fix this? I have little or no MAC knowledge.
Regards,
Dan

That's what I figured but I hoped someone would have dealt with this in the past and have a work around other than split tunneling.
Thanks,
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