Re: Native mapping of printers only for certain users / groups
- From: "Vera Noest [MVP]" <vera.noest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:53:34 -0700
There is no option in Terminal Services Configuration or GPO setting
to restrict printer or drive redirection based on user group
membership.
You can, however, achieve this by creating multiple RDP listeners and
enable/disable printer and drive redirection on a per listener basis.
Set the permissions so that *only* the redirection enabled Group
(your "PrintersAutomaticallyMappedByTS" group) and Administrators
have permission to connect via the redirection enabled listener.
The only disadvantage of this method is that each listener must use a
unique port. For example, you could have the redirection disabled
listener on port 3389 and the redirection enabled listener on port
3390.
And yes, it is possible to *only* redirect the users default printer.
You need to install a hotfix on the TS (included in SP2) and add a
registry key to the clients. Instructions here:
911913 - How to redirect the default printer of a Terminal Services
client to a Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server session
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=911913
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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Gonzo <gonzalo.diethelm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on 08 jun 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
Hello everyone,.
We have a Windows 2003 server running Terminal Services, and
many users connecting to it, grouped by company (this is an ASP
setup). We are switching to Print-IT for managing the users'
printers, and it woks great most of the time. There are a couple
of problematic printers (usually dot-matrix printers used for
invoicing), and in these cases we are reverting to using the
native, automatic printer mapping provided by TS, which works
fine because these specific dot- matrix printers are supported
under TS.
We are currently enabling the TS automatic mapping of these
printers as a global option, with the result that the 95% of
users who have no problems using Print-IT are seeing each of
their local printers mapped twice onto their sessions: once by
TS and once by Print-IT.
The question is: is it possible to tell TS to automatically map
the user's printers (both local and networked) ONLY for a
certain subset of users? Even better, is it possible to do this
based not on the users, but for a certain group (let's call it
"PrintersAutomaticallyMappedByTS"), so that any users who
(directly or indirectly) belong to this group would inherit this
setting and have their printers automatically mapped by TS? Is
it possible to specify this even more, and ask TS to map ONLY a
certain printer (say, the user's default printer), not all of
them?
Any hints and/or suggestions are welcome. Thanks and best
regards.
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