Re: Printing thru terminal servers to a Mac X computer

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From: William Smith (mecklists_at_REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com)
Date: 08/20/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:45:19 -0500

In article <970f01c48615$3a5fab40$a601280a@phx.gbl>,
 <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Well...that ain't gonna happen!
>
> So..a deskjet type "standard" printer will NEVER work NO
> WAY NO HOW through a terminal server to a printer
> connected to a Mac computer?

This is correct. Refer to the Help menu in RDC (I assume you're using
RDC as your TS client) and you'll see that a Postscript printer is
required before a user will be able to print locally.

This is because the Mac must be able to share the printer to the server
so that the server can create a print queue for it. Macs are Postscript
creatures when networking is involved.

bill

-- 
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)


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