Admittedly, some printer drivers are perfect and never
crash, however, there are a bunch out there that do. It
is easier to just not load any of the drivers and just use
a generic universal driver instead, rather than loading a
ton of drivers, than having your system crash, and then
having to unload all of them until you find the offending
one. Y'know what I mean?
The best practice and most recommended thing to do is to
not load any of the drivers (or unload them if you have
them), and then edit the ntprint.inf file (or printupg.inf
file) to force the terminal server to use a specific
driver for a specific printer.
Check out this article for more information:
support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;275495&Product=win2000
I'm sure that some companies do "cerify" their drivers,
but if someone told you that jumping off a building was
safe, would you do it? Seriously though...if you
absolutely need to use a driver because of some feature or
whatnot, be sure to test the driver. I needed to use a
special duplexing option on an HP printer, so I loaded the
driver up on a test system and tested it for a week before
even thinking about touching my production servers. Using
a third-party's driver isn't bad, but past experiences
make everybody a little touchy and send up red flags
everywhere..
-M
-----Original Message-----
Matthew,
Why is this? I have many laser printers that are not
avail. in the original 200 disk (mostly Samsung) and have
been using their drivers on my TS.
Do you think it might be a good practice to uninstall and
re-install the drivers from time to time, or are you
saying I need to find a compatible driver and include a
line in the Models Section of that .INF file that lists
that printer name and associates it with the compatible
*.GPD or *.PPD file?
Or do you know if there are some companies (like Samsung,
hopefully) that "certify" their drivers with TS?
