RE: Printer Help Please !!!!!!!!!!

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From: Vera Noest [MVP] (vera.noest_at_remove-this.hem.utfors.se)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 14:18:09 -0800

If all printers are visible to all users, then your users are
Power Users or (even worse) Administrators.
If this is the case, then you have far worse problems then just
the nuisance of seeing all the printers.

 --
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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=?Utf-8?B?YnJldHRn?= <brettg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on
09 dec 2004 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

>
>
> "mb" wrote:
>
>> Yes, but the printer it assigns is the default printer on the
>> local desktop. (If the drivers are installed.) I'm not sure
>> how to or if there is a way to get rid of this.
>>
>> "brettg" wrote:
> yes thats correct it creates a printer for every user ,but they
> shouldn't be visible to all other users , when you go to
> printers & faxes you have 50-60 printer sessions open it is
> very annoying and I have no idea how to correct it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Brett
>
>>
>> >
>> > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated
>> > I am running Terminal Services on 2003 Server , I have 5
>> > printers on my network everytime a user logs into terminal
>> > services it creates a printer session for that individual
>> > user to every printer on the network, so each user creates 5
>> > printers. If i Have 15 users logged in i have 75 printer
>> > sessions . How do i get rid of this.
>> >
>> > Brett

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