Have you checked with the Administrator of the TS that printer
redirection is enabled at all?
When you start a connection to the terminal server and check your
available printers, is it there at all?
If printer redirection is enabled on the server, but your printer
is not redirected, then the server has no driver for it. The normal
solution would be to map the printer to a native driver, as I wrote
in my first reply, but since you are just a user of the TS, you
can't do that.
Two options:
1) contact the administrator of the Terminal Server, explain the
problem and ask them to map your printer to a native driver.
2) If the administrator doesn't want to do 1), ask him or her for
the nearest compatible driver that *is* supported on the server.
Let's say the Administrator suggests using a HP LaserJet 4.
Then you can install the printer a second time on your workstation,
using the recommend driver (pretend that it is a HP LJ4). Call this
printer something like "TSprinter".
Now when you connect to the TS, the printer should be redirected as
a HP LaserJet 4 printer, which should give you at least basic
printing.
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Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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Post by Agent414Hi TP,
I've already tried changing the registry as you suggested, and it did
not seem to have any effect. I'll try it again in case I did
something wrong.
I also tried mapping the TCP/IP printer to LPT1 on the
client computer
(using the "net use lpt1 \\servername\printername
/persistent:yes" command. After this mapping, when I print a
test page from the client computer it works fine, but again
nothing prints when the client is connected to the terminal
server.
Finally, I understood from Vera that using RDP 5.1 is fine
and that
downloading RDP 5.2 would not help me solve this problem. Her
other suggestions involved changes on the Terminal Server
itself, but this is offsite at another organization and I do not
have any privileges on this machine other than being a client.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Post by TPHi, did you follow the advice that Vera gave you? What did you
find out?
I think you need to add a registry value on the client. You
can use the attached .reg file on the client to make the
change. This change is per-user, so it must be done for any
user that logs on to the workstation that will also use the
Remote Desktop Client.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302361
Thanks.
-TP
Post by Agent414The terminal server is Windows 2000 and it is at a remote
location. I do not have access to the terminal server.
I am using remote desktop (Windows XP sevice pack 2) on the
client computer to connect to the terminal server. The
client computer does not have a printer attached to it, but
does is connected via a local network to a HP 4050N printer
that has a static TCP / IP (address). The client computer
prints without problem to the printer when not using terminal
services, but I don't seem to be able to get the client
computer to print to the TCP/IP printer when connected to the
terminal server via remote desktop.
Any solutions? Thanks