printing in Termial Services

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Andy Welcomer

When logging into a server using terminal services in Administrative mode, a
printer may be created for some Admins, but not for others. Also the
printer that is being created doesn't work. Please help. I'm at a lose as
to what to look for.


thanks in advance.
 
Greetings

I recently had a lot of trouble with terminal server printers, so let me see
if i can point you in some direction ...

The printers that are being created are redirections of the printers that
are installed on the local machine. With TS in W2K, the only type of printer
redirection happens for "local ports", or (which I found by experience)
printers on print servers that are accessible via a UNC path (ie
\\printserver\printername )

So perhaps you need to look at what type of environment your admins are
connecting FROM (ie the local machinces that they are using). Perhaps you
have an external print server or are using some type of IP print server.

Then you will need the drivers of the printers installed on the server as
well.

And as a last resort, also check that the local resource redirection for
printers in enabled (which is default) in your Remote Desktop Connection
client.

Hope this helps
Albatross
 
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