Laptop Docking station without USB-C?

philh wrote:
Not sure this is making it easier to understand :)

I'm stuck with Dell docking station. Corporate computer is locked down and will not accept drivers that aren't in the initial laptop load.

Getting that docking station to work on the desktop PC is the challenging part. Project will probably be put on hold for awhile, I have some other higher priority projects.

:h

They can "lock" the USB ports down preventing use of USB flash drives or other devices but not sure about accepting drivers for new hardware..

The problem may be they are controlling Windows Update through group policies and that may be blocking or preventing Windows from being able to search the drivers library online which is done through Windows update..

But, then how did you get your printers to work on the new PC? Company would have had to include drivers for your printers..

Remote desktop via Internet?

That one can be problematic, DWs work uses "WinTerms" which are a modern day version of the old "dumb terminal" were the terminal loaded the OS remotely through disk images and the terminal has no HD.. We have had to go through a lot of song and dance to get a PC at home and our local printer/scanner to work with her remote desktop disk image while working remotely. She has to select the local printer/scanner each time she logs in since that info is never saved to the remote desktop image.

May be much more to this story than meets the eye.

Looks like in the mean time you are pretty much stuck moving cables back and forth..

They do make HDMI switches which work well and you can also get USB switches to allow you to "share" things like monitors and printers between multiple PCs..

Something else that is possible to do, enable printer sharing on one PC.. That PC now becomes a network "print server". Will require the PC with printers to be shared to be powered on all the time and connected to your router.