Terminal Server Printing

[SelbyGlenn]

Hi there,

I often have to terminal server to remote servers in Administration Mode and every time I do it writes Termservdevices errors to the event log. I know this is because the printer drivers are not installed on the remote servers but I never need to print though them anyway. Does anyone know how to stop Windows 2000 Server in Administration Mode from mapping your installed printers.

Thanks in advance,

Glenn.

 

[jrogersnd]

Hello,

Go into options on your terminal services client and under the Local Resources Tab - uncheck Printers.

HTH!

--James

 

[Dmasch]

Double click your user and then under the enviroment tab you will find that you can uncheck your printers from being mapped as jrogersnd mentioned above.

 

[SelbyGlenn]

Sorry James but I can't work out where you mean.

Thanks Dmasch but that would stop printer connections to my Citrix application terminal servers too (which I forgot to mention - sorry!).

I think I've found the solution though. If I select the properties of the RDP-Tcp connection under Terminal Services Configuration on the remote server then I can overide the settings you mentioned Dmasch under the client settings tab.

Thanks for you help anyway.

Cheers,
Glenn.

 

[jrogersnd]

SelbyGlenn,

Are you using the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client? If you are then there's an option to disable the mapping of local printers.

--James