Printer Question

[Guest Joe]

Hi,

 

Is it possible in terminal services to hide printers in session 1 from the

user in session 2 and vice versa. Users are getting over whelmed with

multiple printers from other users sessions.

 

One more questions. Is there a way to log off disconnected sessions that

have been dormont for x hours?

 

Cheers,

Joe

[Guest ITPro07]

Re: Printer Question

 

On Sep 13, 10:17 am, "Joe" <j...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Is it possible in terminal services to hide printers in session 1 from the

> user in session 2 and vice versa. Users are getting over whelmed with

> multiple printers from other users sessions.

>

> One more questions. Is there a way to log off disconnected sessions that

> have been dormont for x hours?

>

> Cheers,

> Joe

 

You can open Terminal Services Configuration and open the properties

of RDP. You can set limits in session tab.

[Guest Vera Noest [MVP]]

Re: Printer Question

 

From

http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_printing.htm#UserSeeAllPrinters

 

Q: My users can see all redirected printers. How can I make them

see only their own printers?

 

A: If your users can see each others redirected printers, they are

most likely members of the Administrator or Power Users user group.

Type "whoami /groups" in a Terminal Server session to see the group

membership list of a user.

 

If that's the case, there is no way to prevent them from seeing all

printers (and they will be able to do far more serious damage than

merely printing to the wrong printer!).

Make them normal users again, and if you made them Administrators

to solve a permission problem with an application, check this Q&A:

 

My application runs fine for Administrators, but not for normal

users

http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_applications.htm#FileRegMon

 

Some applications, for example Lotus Notes 5.5 and Microsoft Excel

2002, may display redirected printers from other sessions, for

which users have no permissions.

You can solve this with a free utility from ThinPrint:

MyPrinterView

http://www.thinprint.com/index.php?s=4321&lc=61

 

In Windows Server 2008, this is no longer an issue. The visibility

of redirected printers is limited to the session where they are

installed. For more information, see:

Terminal Services Easy Print

http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/05/03/introducing-terminal-

services-easy-print-part-2.aspx

_________________________________________________________

Vera Noest

MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net

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"Joe" <joe@microsoft.com> wrote on 13 sep 2007 in

microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi,

>

> Is it possible in terminal services to hide printers in session

> 1 from the user in session 2 and vice versa. Users are getting

> over whelmed with multiple printers from other users sessions.

>

> One more questions. Is there a way to log off disconnected

> sessions that have been dormont for x hours?

>

> Cheers,

> Joe