Printer Drivers on Terminal Server 2003

[Guest ITPro07]

Hi,

 

Our users are using variety of HP printer models, and the printers who

have no matching driver on server are not being redirected. Do I need

to install every single driver on server one by one or there is a

better way?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards,

 

Rana

[Guest Jeff Pitsch]

Re: Printer Drivers on Terminal Server 2003

 

yes you need the drivers on the server. If your using windows 2003 SP1

(or is it 2 I forget) they introduced the fallback driver which uses

a generic driver for print drivers that are not on the server. I would

not blindly load the print drivers though as the #1 cause of stability

issues with terminal services is bad print drivers. I would test your

drivers first (Citrix (http://support.citrix.com) actually has utility

you can use to test them call StressPrint) before implementing them.

 

Jeff Pitsch

Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

Citrix Technology Professional

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ITPro07 wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Our users are using variety of HP printer models, and the printers who

> have no matching driver on server are not being redirected. Do I need

> to install every single driver on server one by one or there is a

> better way?

>

> Thanks in advance for your help.

>

> Regards,

>

> Rana

>

[Guest Dragos CAMARA]

RE: Printer Drivers on Terminal Server 2003

 

hi,

check the universal printer driver from HP and create or modify a custom

printer mapping file.

 

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/9d161c8a-d0f5-4268-a4d3-55426e32041a1033.mspx?mfr=true

 

--

Dragos CAMARA

MCSA Windows 2003 server

 

 

"ITPro07" wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Our users are using variety of HP printer models, and the printers who

> have no matching driver on server are not being redirected. Do I need

> to install every single driver on server one by one or there is a

> better way?

>

> Thanks in advance for your help.

>

> Regards,

>

> Rana

>

>