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Terminal Services - Printing - From remote location to local printer

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multiband8303

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Don't ask don't tell why this is setup this way. I am cleaning up some people's old mess - and need to find a work around before I go to the site and fix them up properly.

Office location has 2 ends - front and back end.

Front end encloses the server a switch and patch panel - a dozen workstations - all statically assigned internal IPs along with the server communicate fine - NIC 1 to switch NIC 2 to WAN (Cable modem) - 2nd nic left wide open

Back end has the "owners" workstations - 4 workstations - to a single switch - and an uplink on the switch to ANOTHER cable modem - all the workstations - obviously since there is no Nat or level 3 device - have there own external public leased IP from the ISP.

One of the owners needs to be able to RDP into the server and print out some reports (3rd party program)

I need to know how I could possibly allow the local printer to propegate via his terminal session - should that already be working - I just need a workaround for now...

I will be going out and physically putting a physical connection between the back end and the patch panel along with a level 3 device to route the traffic for the entire office location - so that it is more secure.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
 
Update your clients to RDC 6.0 (the one that supports vista) because an older version might be causing you problems with printers depending on your terminal servers OS. Then just install the correct printer driver on the server using the "add driver" feature. RDP will do the rest for you. If it still doesn't work it should show errors in the servers event log.
 
The RDC on the workstation needs to be updated?

Also I just confirmed - the drivers are already installed on the server of the local printer....should be fine - I will remove and add it again - along with the RDC update. But I dont think thats going to work..
 
Did both - still nothing. Printer doesn't show

FYI I'm use to Citrix Environments - not a traditional terminal server, however, I fail to see why this is not working.
 
It's not clear to me where this printer is in your network. If the printer is on the terminal server you will need to share it. If the printer is directly connected to the client or the client is mapped to it you will need to install exactly the same printer drivers on the terminal server. Well, thats all that's neccessary in MS Terminal Server 2000/2003 at least. Did you check your event logs to see if any of the computers listed print install errors?
 
The printer is locally installed on the client computer

the server is windows server 2003 (not technically a terminal server running as an app server)

The client is accessing the server by using RDP.
 
Update the client to RDC 6.0. Click on options and make sure that you have printers selected under local resources. Connect to the server. Check the system event log on the server for printer creation/failure. If your client is requesting the printer correctly you should get event id 2, 9, or 1111. If you get 1111 you installed the wrong driver on the server.
 
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