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From: Alan (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/01/04

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    Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:06:34 -0700

    Further to an earlier question where local printers are
    intermittently not autocreated during a TS session.

    When a user contacted me because he desperatly needed to
    print out something for a customer I went into the add
    printer wizard to see if I could manually create it.

    When I got to the select port section I noted some
    peculiarities. Firstly there was a lot of "inactive TS
    ports" in the list which I cannot delete. Secondly those
    ports that had sucessfully been created were attached to
    %term_id%:PRN0 where as the terminal I had to sort out
    had a PRN1 instead, all of the others with no printer
    also had a port PRN1. Finally some had LPT1 instead of
    PRN0 or 1

    It is my guess that it is something about the "inactive"
    ports that is preventing the PRN0 being created and PRN1
    will not allow an autocreated printer to be installed.

    Can anyone shed a light on this issue.

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