RE: Forcing WTS to ignore a printer for a single user

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Why not just scrap the OfficeJet 55xx printer in favor of one that doesn't
use LIDIL. Another option would be script the default printer selection in
her session to the Network Printer.

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Patrick Rouse
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"lee_malatesta@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:

> This is on Windows Server 2000 running WTS and printer redirection
> running.
>
> I've got a user at a client's site that needs to have a Windows driver
> installed on her workstation for a networked printer that is only
> useable from a particular application on her network. She doesn't want
> this printer to show up under available printers at all in her RDC
> sessions because she can't print to it from WTS.
>
> It wouldn't be such a big deal if her default printer was supported by
> WTS, but it's not. Her default printer on her workstation is one of the
> HP OfficeJet 55xx series that isn't compatible with WTS. So when she
> logs in, WTS printer redirection ignores what would normally be her
> default printer and sets up the next available printer (the one she
> also can't print to) as her default. She does have a second networked
> printer available that she wants to show up so that she can print from
> RDC sessions.
>
> Is there a way that I can get WTS to ignore her one networked printer
> but still see the other that will not affect any other WTS users?
>
>
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