printer redirection remote desktop not working

[holden j caufield]

Hi my mom has an old HP Laserjet 400 on an old xp machine. She remote into a server but needs to printer to her local HP laserjet. Under rdp local resources on her computer I have printer check marked.

But still when she logs on the remote 2k8 R2 server she doesn't see her local printer

Any advice?

Thanks

 

[seepy83]

Does the server have drivers for that printer installed?

 

[holden j caufield]

yes the x86 driver is on the server, same driver on both the client and the server. I get event log 1111 on the server that it can't find the driver.

Client RDP info

"Shell version 6.0.6001
Control version 6.0.6001

Network level authentication not support
Remote Desktop Protocol 6.1 supported"

 

[imagoon]

1111 means the drivers that are installed are not compatible with each other or missing. Odds are you will need to get a some what close version on both machines so they can recognize each other such as the HP universal driver. Basically the XP/Vista driver (6.0.6001 is the XP/vista RDP client typically) is not announcing that it is the same printer as the driver installed on the server -> giving Event 1111.

 

[Softprogger]

To kill any trouble on rdp-printing use thirdparty-software like thinprint, tricerat screwdrivers or Slimprinter .
No drivers on serverside required, so no spoolercrash!
My favorite ist Slimprinter, simply download without any registration and no hidden fees.

Greetings
Softprogger

 

[Enigma102083]

I solved this issue by just having network printers and installing them directly on the RDS server, because you should be doing this over a site-to-site VPN tunnel. Another option would be to install the printer on the local machine, then share it and use net use to redirect a local printer on the server to the shared print queue on the workstation.