Printer and display issues

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for some reason when I remotely connect a couple of odd things are
happening. The display this is new, but the printer just got hooked up, so
it may be a common problem.

The display - used to be fine. But, now (since I use it quite often for
watching movies on my tele) when I get home from my girlfrioends house
(where I have logged onto my home machine remotely) my display is on the TV
for some reason. I checked to ensure that the monitor was the default
display and this never happened until about 2 weeks ago. Any ideas?

The other issue is the network. I have a home network of about 4 machines
set up whicj all share the printer connected to this computer. When I'm
remotely connected (and in fact until I restart my machine after a remote
connection) no-one can use the printer hooked up to my computer; not even
me. ONce I restart it recognises everything again and all is good; until
the next remote connection screws everything up.

Pent 2.53
1.5G RAM
Nvidia GeForce 5600 Ultra
Gigabyte 8INXP MB
Win XP Pro
Linksys B rounter (4 port and wireless)
and a new HP Office Jet 1210 All in one
using port forwarding; not DMZ
any ideas?
 
The video is a mystery to me--was there a driver change in the last two
weeks? If there was one, there's a button to revert to the previous driver,
which is nice.

There's a video slider in troubleshooting somewhere--easing it back one
click helps some video issues, but I'm not sure it'd help with this one.

The printer thing is interesting--not run-of-the-mill at all,
unfortunately--otherwise I'd have some recipe for success.

This thing connects via USB to your machine?

If you look at the printer properties, is the port by which it connects
specified as DOT4?

Tell us about the other machines--what OS's?

Ok--you go offsite (or just to another machine) and do an RD session. You
come back and fix the video issue without rebooting. Now nobody else can
print right? What message do they get? Do the jobs just sit in the queues?

Can you print, sitting at the machine with the printer attached? If you
look at the printer properties, are they changed in any way? Does the
printing troubleshooter help at all?

OK--let me think out loud here. The default setting for an RD connection
(and you can change this in options, local resources, local devices) is to
make the clients default printer (i.e. the default printer at the client
location) the default printer for the session.

So, if I'm sitting at a Windows 2000 server and use RD 5.2 client to connect
to an XP Pro machine, and hit the print button in something, the printing
SHOULD come out in the networked HP 5 down the hall.
So, at the XP host machine, there's an on-the-fly install of an HP5 driver,
and the default printer is shifted to the new printer which is set to print
to a "port" which leads (how the heck DOES it do that anyway?) to the HP5.
And all that is torn down at the end of the session--the printer goes away,
the default is set back.

Take a look at your system event log on the XP Pro host for events
surrounding the RD sessions--esp with source PRINTER. See anything
promising?
(right-click My Computer, choose manage, expand Event Viewer, and click on
System. Look for the time of the RD session.)
 
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