Printing Remotely Persistently

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Walt B

Does anyone know how make a printer that is local to your machine, to
a remote desktop, and have it KEEP the printer in the printers folder
even after you disconnect. So the next time you connect the printer is
already installed.

Anyone know how to do that? Im thinking maybe make the local printer
shared and then mapping it via "net use" persistently. Or will it will
still disappear?
 
You are trying to print from a program on a remote PC tp
the printer attached to your local PC, correct? I
believe you need to add your local printers driver to the
remote machine. Try connecting to the remote and use add
printer to install your printer model on the remote
machine. Then when you go to priont you will have a
choice to print to your local printer.

DM
 
When the RDP client disconnects, the printer disappears
from the list of printers; however, when connected, you
can go into PRINTERS, highlight your client PC's local
printer (ie HP LaserJet III/COMPUTERNAME/Session 2) and
use [F2] to RENAME it (ie davelaser). It will change the
name of the printer to a more friendly name (davelaser).
What's more the whitepaper on RDP 5.1 indicates the
renaming of the printer will persist when re-connected
the next time, as it creates registry entries (on the
server or client?) about the device and computername it
is connected to. That way, the next time you connect
(from that client PC), an entry is auto-created for you
in the Printers section called davelaser, which re-
directs output to the HP LaserJet III/COMPUTERNAME
without having to know which Session Id is in use, etc.
(because that might not always be Session 2). Very handy.

The only problem I have had is that certain servers
don't "remember" this information and others do (all
Win2K servers in my case, with WinXP Pro as the client).
I haven't yet found which settings, etc. control this on
the client (or server) PC.

As a temporary solution, I simply go into the Printers
section and rename it manually (a pain, but it works!).

If anybody knows the answer to this, please let us know.

Regards,

David R. O'Hearn
(e-mail address removed)
 
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