Re: Terminal server remote printing

Can you point me in the right direction. I am not sure if I stated this
before but if the user connects to one of the Citrix servers printing
autocreation works fine. If they connect to the other it does not. Both
servers are loaded the same. The only difference is the one that autocreates
the printers is the Citrix license server, which should have no impact.

thanks

"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

You'll have to configure redirection of printers in the ICA client
as well.

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=?Utf-8?B?Sm9lIE1jSGFl?= <JoeMcHae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 15 jan 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

Thanks, I had already tried KB article 302361. It did not work.
What fixed the RDP client was that I did not have redirect
local printers set on the client side. I thought setting it at
the server end under client settings would work. Once I set it
on the client side I am now autocreating printers in an RDP
connection. I guess I will have to go to a citrix newsgroup to
see why the ICA connection is not mapping the printer. Again
thanks for the help.



"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

My guess is that both of your problems have the same cause:
the servers which don't autocreate your local printers don't
have the appropriate drivers for those printers.
Verify this by checking the EventLog on the server.

From the "Printing" menu in http://ts.veranoest.net/

Basically, there are 2 areas where printer redirection can
fail:

1. redirection is not attempted at all
Solution: check the configuration of printer redirection in the
RDP client and on the Terminal Server, update the RDP client to
at least the XP SP2 version or apply KB article 302361 to get
support for redirection of non-standard local port names,
including tcp/ip ports.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302361

2. redirection is attempted, but fails because the server
doesn't have a driver for the printer
Solution: whatever you do, do not install a 3rd party printer
driver on the Terminal Server, unless it is a Windows Hardware
Quality Labs (WHQL) signed driver. Many non-WHQL drivers are
not TS-compatible, and some are known to crash your printer
spooler or the whole server. In stead, map the printer to a
native driver by creating a custom ntprintsubs.inf file, as
described in KB article 239088.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=239088
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?Sm9lIE1jSGFl?= <JoeMcHae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote on 15 jan 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

I have a windows 2003 domain with two windows 2000 terminal
servers running Citrix presentation server 4.0. Printing has
been a problems since before I came onboard. My question
today is 2fold
(1) When I remote desktop to any of my 2003 servers I
do not see any of my local printers being recreated on the
servers.
(2) of the 2 windows 2000 terminal servers only one is
autocreating any printers for the Citrix users. I recently
re-loaded both of those servers so they would be identical,
evidently not. I have checked the RDP and ICA connection
properties on all the servers they are all configured to
autocreate locaal printers. One last thing the local printers
on my workstation are network printers, but on other networks
this has never been a problem.

.

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