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Terminal Server Printers

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DavidM - 15 Mar 2004 18:59 GMT
Hello --

I have a 20 user W2K Terminal Server environment that is a member server of
an Active Directory domain.  I would like to create 1-3 printers on my TS
that all usrs can see.  Is there a way I can do this without having to
manually require each user to create the printer or try and do this within
their login script?

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Zenon Pilat \(MS\) - 18 Mar 2004 09:59 GMT
It would be only possible if you install those printers on the TS, so if
those 20 users connect to this particular server all will have access to
those printers

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> Hello --
>
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> manually require each user to create the printer or try and do this within
> their login script?
DavidM - 18 Mar 2004 17:26 GMT
How do I go about creating the printer on the TS so all users can see?  I
assume there is more to it than logging in as myself and creating a
printer???   I would think that I'd be the only one to see my printer.

Please advise

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> It would be only possible if you install those printers on the TS, so if
> those 20 users connect to this particular server all will have access to
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> > manually require each user to create the printer or try and do this within
> > their login script?
Zenon Pilat \(MS\) - 06 Apr 2004 07:40 GMT
When you TS to the server is like using the server and all its resources so
if you install printer on the server on local port (LPT, COM, USB, TCP,
DOT4) all those printers are accessible by every connected user. The only
problem is if he/she is in Bon and server is in Washington there will be not
much use from the printer. So now it comes new term widely used in TS
domain - redirection.

When you connect from the client that has its own peripherals you want still
use them even when you are in the session on remote server, so your local
printer - installed on your desktop client computer - is redirected to the
server so you can see it inside the session. This redirected printer is only
visible for you and administrator connected to the server.

In TS environment if you want to make printer accessible to many users it is
the easiest way and only possible, because manipulating with security is not
very good implemented forcing you to reenter the setting every time the
printer owner logs off and log on again. (you can always create printer
server and give access to the network printer to selected users - this is
the traditional way). With network printer in TS environment is a little
different story since it is bound to the user account not the computer.

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> How do I go about creating the printer on the TS so all users can see?  I
> assume there is more to it than logging in as myself and creating a
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> within
> > > their login script?
DavidM - 30 Apr 2004 22:20 GMT
Thanks for the feedback.  I'll create local printers on the TS and try the
waters --

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> When you TS to the server is like using the server and all its resources so
> if you install printer on the server on local port (LPT, COM, USB, TCP,
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> > within
> > > > their login script?
 
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