Re: Local Printing Using From Remote Host?

Tom wrote:
"Big Al" <BigAl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5Y4Xj.7706$0h.3786@xxxxxxxxxxx
When you setup the RDP connection on client PC, (or edit an old one) you set it on the 'local resources' tab. There is a place to set the devices to use in the connection. Printers is one.
I'm looking at the new screen in SP3. But its been there in some form in older versions.
Also, there was a bug (or I call it one) in XP SP2, that you could not use a printer on the client during a RDP connection that is not LPT1, COM, or USB.
ie, My laptop does not have a printer. So I share one on my desktop in the house. Now when I connect to the office, I can't see that printer on my laptop. There is a registry patch to fix that situation, but SP3 might have fixed it. Not sure.

I think this addresses the issue. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302361/en-us

Or if you want just copy these lines to a file called remote.reg and then double click it, and it will install for you. Everything between the ----'s
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR]
"FilterQueueType"=dword:ffffffff
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I'll try it but I didn't have to do it last year. I curious observation. In a test set up today. The local MS Image Writer showed up in printerts and faxes on the remote PC but the printer connected to LPT 1 on the local client PC didn';t show up. I also remeber I had to install the local printer driver on the remote host but don't remember how I had to do it.

Tom


I never had an issue with any physically local LPT printers. They always seemed to map over properly.
Our office had one of those huge printers in the middle of the office and everyone shared it. Thus every PC had this problem that KB302361 addresses. But if you have an LPT1 printer, KB302361 is not your issue.
Have fun.
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