Re: RWW Session No Local Printer

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First - not all printers will redirect successfully. Earlier USB multi-function printers are notorious for not playing nice with a redirected port.

Second, for printer redirection to work, your PC at the office has to have the driver installed for the printer connected to your home PC.

Third - since you do have a USB printer at home, some USB ports are not redirected by default. For more information on how to correct this and enable these ports to be redirected, take a look at MSKB 302361 - "Printers That Use Ports That Do No Begin With COM, LPT, or USB Are Not Redirected in a Remote Desktop or Terminal Services Session"

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302361

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Chad Gross - SBS MVP
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"Richard K" <RichardK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7C61C917-7F80-43BD-8AFD-9E6B7A154DE6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have an SBS 2003 Prem R2 network I am connecting to. When I am at home on
my Windows XP Home computer I RWW into the server, then connect to my desktop
in the office. I hit the options to share local drives and connect. When I
am connected I can see local (Windows XP Home computer) drives and my remote
(XP Pro desktop in the office) drives when I open up My Computer. BUT, when
I look at my printers I can only see my printers in the office and not my
home computer printers so I can print at home.

More more thing I do notice making me think something is not set right.
When I do hit the login I am first asked to confirm (with a check box) to
enable remote drives, but the option for "Connect your local ports to the
remote computer" is greyed and and not checked. That's probably why I can't
get to my local printer which is connected via a USB. Why is it greyed out
and not enabled? How I fix this?

Thanks!

-Richard K

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