RE: Printing to a local printer in a Remote Web Workplace session

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Hello Mark,

Thank you for posting in the SBS newsgroup.

According to your description, I understand that you cannot print to a
local printer in a remote web workplace session. If I have misunderstood
your concern, please don't hesitate to let me know.

Although there are issues that some printers do not work with remote
printing, we generally use the below steps to print the document in your
office to the local printer in your home through RWW.

First, you could make sure that the printer is in the Windows HCL list for
both your local and remote host computers. You could check the HCL at

http://www.microsoft.com/HCL

Please the following steps to install the local printer driver on the
remote computer. The printer is not required to be connected physically.

How to Add Printer Drivers
-----------------------------------------------------
1. on the remote computer, Click Start, and then click Printers and Faxes

2. On the File menu, click Server Properties, and then click the Drivers
tab.

3. Click Add, click Next, and then follow the instructions in the Add
Printer Driver wizard.

4. Finish the wizard to install the printer driver correctly

Then, after you enter the RWW site and please click connect to client
Desktop. In the next window, please click 'Optional settings' and put a
check mark at 'Enable documents on the remote computer to be printed on a
local printer' and click connected.

Here is more information about this issue. I want to introduce the
following utility to you.

Terminal Server Printer Driver Redirection Wizard v.1.0.80

This tool will examine a remote or local Terminal Server and determine
whether or not printer redirection has failed. For each printer driver that
failed redirection, the tool will prompt the user to select an installed
driver to create a new NTPrintSubs.inf file. This also integrates with a
new Windows Server 2003 SP1 Group Policy to address printer redirection
issues. This is an automation of the KB article 239088 entitled "Windows
2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111, 1105, and 1106".

Download link
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/f/2/9f237742-e057-4e00-a0d5-62de2eb
f9fbd/TSPDRW_Package.exe

Additionally, In the RDP session, all the redirected printers are using
printer port begins with TS00x, such as TS001 or TS002. Any client computer
attached LPT printer or Network printer are all redirected as TS00x port.

To get additional detailed information, you may refer to the following KB
article:

818758 White Paper: Terminal Services and Printing
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=818758

302361 Printers That Use Ports That Do Not Begin With COM, LPT, or USB Are
Not
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=302361

239088 Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111, 1105, and
1106
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=239088


I hope this helps. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not
hesitate to let me know. I am always happy to be of further assistance.

Best regards,

Nathan Liu (MSFT)
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>Hi,
>
>I have two users set up to use RWW to access their desktops from home and
to
>print to their local printers. It was all working well, but has now
stopped
>working on both machines, with an error like "this document failed to
print"
>
>The only things to have changed is that the server was upgraded to SP1,
and
>the cleint machines (XP SP2) have received all the recent updates.
Somewhere
>along the line, my printing to the remote client's printer facility got
lost!
>
>I'd appreciate any help, either
>
>(1) has anything changed with SP1 that means I need to throw or reset a
>switch somewhere on the server machine?
>
>(2) How do I set the port assignments for the local printers? I did this
>some time ago and now can't remember :-(. All the ports that are used have
>names like TS001, but I forget how to set up a new one.
>
>I'll be soooo grateful for your help,
>
>- Mark
>

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