Connecting to Local Printer during a terminal session

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Can some one please help. Under Remote Desktop Connectio then under local
resources I checked under local devices printers. When I connect my local
printer doesn't show in the terminal services session. Can someone tell me
how to do that?

Thanks
Ron Gallon

 

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

Check the EventLog on your Terminal Server for more information.
Basically, there are 2 areas where printer redirection can fail:

1) redirection is not attempted at all
Solution: check the configuration of local device redirection in
the RDP client, update the client to the latest version, which
supports redirection of network printers and apply KB article
302361 in case of a non-standard local port name

302361 - Printers That Use Ports That Do Not Begin With COM, LPT,
or USB Are Not Redirected in a Remote Desktop or Terminal Services
Session
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302361

2) redirection is attempted, but fails because the server doesn't
have a driver for the printer
Solution: whatever you do, do not install a 3th party printer
driver on the Terminal Server, unless it is a Windows Hardware
Quality Labs (WHQL) signed driver. Many non-WHQL drivers are not
TS-compatible, and some are known to crash your printer spooler or
the whole server. In stead, map the printer to a native driver by
creating a custom ntprintsubs.inf file, as described in KB article
239088.

239088 - Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111,
1105, and 1106
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=239088

If you are running Windows 2003 SP1 on your Terminal Server, you
can configure a Fallback printer driver.
If you manage more than a handful of servers and more than a dozen
of printer models, it will be worth it to invest in a 3rd party
printer management solution.

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Vera Noest
MCSE,CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://hem.fyristorg.com/vera/IT
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"Gallon Family" <gallonfmly@verizon.net> wrote on 12 jul 2005:

> Can some one please help. Under Remote Desktop Connectio then
> under local resources I checked under local devices printers.
> When I connect my local printer doesn't show in the terminal
> services session. Can someone tell me how to do that?
>
> Thanks
> Ron Gallon