Map Default client printers over..

[MattWray]

We have all printers auto-create with the clients printers. The problem is, that the client's default printer does not map over as default. Whatever printer is set as default on the Citrix box shows as default. How can this be corrected, it is causing me quite the headache!
TIA!

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[JohnTcolo]

If you open the Citrix Connection Configuration program, right click on the connection you wish to modify, select edit and Client Settings. Uncheck the Inherit User Config box and make sure the Default to Main Client Printer box is checked.

 

[MattWray]

Thanks for the reply! These are already done as such.
Maybe some more background. We install and share all our printers on a server then the clients can add them from there. I wasn't sure if maybe Citrix is looking for locally installed devices, where ours are network printers....

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[JohnTcolo]

Matt,

I have seen this happen to us also. It is not consistent and only happens with Network printers. I can't put my finger on the event that causes the default to become incorrect since these are remote WAN users.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Ogi]

This is usually caused by a badly written application hard coding a printer default when you print.

Log in
Examine the printer
Set it to your choice
Log out
Log in
Examine the printer - is it correct? if so, proceed
Run each app, print to another printer, check the default printer
Has it been changed? If so, there is your culprit!

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[MattWray]

Let me explain some more.
We login to our Domain. We run MS Office and a select few other apps over Citrix. So if you were working locally on the workstation, the printers are fine. When you open say, Word Citrix, the printer is the default for the Citrix Server itself. The client printers map, but the clients Default printer in citrix does not become their default printer that is local. A workaround I have used for those that cry the loudest, is to set up a direct connection to the server from their workstation and log in as the user. If I go to the printers folder there, I can reset the default printer and it will stay. Obviously this will not work for a few hundred users. There has to be a better way?
I am not very Citrix savy, so if there is a better way, please let me know....

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[terrywilson]

I hate citrix autocreated printers with a passion; they are good up to a point, but I am slowly abolishing all of ours and just setting them up with login scripts - as below

; DNP001 HP Report Printer in Planning office
CASE $GROUP="WICKLIFFE\PTR_DNP001D"
SHELL 'con2prt /cd \\dexchgsrv1\"DNP001"'
? "DNP001D"
? "DNP001D: @SERROR"

CASE $GROUP="WICKLIFFE\PTR_DNP001S"
SHELL 'con2prt /c \\dexchgsrv1\"DNP001"'
? "DNP001S"
? "DNP001S: @SERROR"

With printers being created from group membership. All I need now is a way to give users the ability to view the print queue without having the printer mapped locally (I don't want the possiblity that they will choose to print to a client printer isntead of one on the server or to have to continue installing w9x drivers for new printers); any ideas anyone?