Adding local printer in Windows NT 4.0 TS

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I am looking to add a local printer to a user account on an Windows NT 4.0
Terminal Server.

My new client is using VPN to attach to a NT4 Terminal Server. They then
want to be able to print local to themselves, which seems to be a reasonable
request. I am trying to do as much advance research so I am not stumbling
and bumbling in front of this client, so any insight is appreciated.

The following article isn't applicable being it is for a Win2000 box.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243552

If I log in as the user that I want the printer added to, and go through the
add printer wizard, the local printer option isn't available.

So when I login as the administrator account I can add a local printer,
although I haven't had the opportunity to try it all the way through as I am
not at the client location where the RDP client resides. Does anyone know
that if I VPN in and have file/print sharing enabled on the client and
establish a RDP session, that I should be able to add a Local Printer to the
Terminal Server, which should be available to all users...

Correct? Or am I way off base?

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsnt.terminalserver.setup (More info?)

Windows NT 4.0 TSE does not support redirection of local printers.

You can still get this to work, but you'll need to share the
printer on the client and connect to it from within the session.
You can automate this is the users login script.

243295 - How to Print to Local Printer from a Terminal Server
Client
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243295

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"Marc Grobe" <mgrobe@ANTISPAM.leghorncomputing.com> wrote in
news:uoNTGdETEHA.1472@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl:

> I am looking to add a local printer to a user account on an
> Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server.
>
> My new client is using VPN to attach to a NT4 Terminal Server.
> They then want to be able to print local to themselves, which
> seems to be a reasonable request. I am trying to do as much
> advance research so I am not stumbling and bumbling in front of
> this client, so any insight is appreciated.
>
> The following article isn't applicable being it is for a Win2000
> box.
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;243552
>
> If I log in as the user that I want the printer added to, and go
> through the add printer wizard, the local printer option isn't
> available.
>
> So when I login as the administrator account I can add a local
> printer, although I haven't had the opportunity to try it all
> the way through as I am not at the client location where the RDP
> client resides. Does anyone know that if I VPN in and have
> file/print sharing enabled on the client and establish a RDP
> session, that I should be able to add a Local Printer to the
> Terminal Server, which should be available to all users...
>
> Correct? Or am I way off base?