Client & Network Printer settings

[Guest Brett Sadler]

Hello,

 

Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction with the issues I'm

having and that I explain this in an understandable manner.

 

We have a TS server that we have for our Accounting (Dynamics 9) department

only. Currently, we have it setup through client registry settings so that

they have only their default printer connecting through to the RDP session.

This works fine. However, it was constantly defaulting to the client

printer, as opposed to being only just available. I realize this is by

design.

 

Since only one person has a local printer, under the RDP connection

properties on the Client Settings tab, I turned off the "Use connection

settings from user settings" box, left drives and printers at logon checked,

but unchecked the auto default to main client printer.

 

The reason I took this route is due to the client printers not having the

ability to print double sided since not all of the printer properties are

available. Two of our accounting people NEED this functionality as part of

their job. To try to get around this issue, we setup policy so they received

network printers.

 

Now we are having two problems:

1. The user with the client printer can't set her local printer as default

after she logs in and have it persist through so the next time she logs in it

remains the default printer

2. The double sided print settings for our other two users on the network

printer won't persist through another login, so when they make change to

double sided (duplex) printing, and then log out for the day, when they log

back in to TS server, it has reverted back to the single sided printing.

 

Does this look like a printer policy issue where the printers are being

re-pushed at every login, overwriting settings? Or is this an issue with the

TS client? Thank you in advance!

[Guest Munindra Das [MSFT]]

Re: Client & Network Printer settings

 

This might be a known issue. Please check this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q243942/.

 

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"Brett Sadler" <Brett Sadler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:A32EDF1B-0BFE-4F48-8C9E-41BF9F4D874A@microsoft.com...

> Hello,

>

> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction with the issues I'm

> having and that I explain this in an understandable manner.

>

> We have a TS server that we have for our Accounting (Dynamics 9)

> department

> only. Currently, we have it setup through client registry settings so

> that

> they have only their default printer connecting through to the RDP

> session.

> This works fine. However, it was constantly defaulting to the client

> printer, as opposed to being only just available. I realize this is by

> design.

>

> Since only one person has a local printer, under the RDP connection

> properties on the Client Settings tab, I turned off the "Use connection

> settings from user settings" box, left drives and printers at logon

> checked,

> but unchecked the auto default to main client printer.

>

> The reason I took this route is due to the client printers not having the

> ability to print double sided since not all of the printer properties are

> available. Two of our accounting people NEED this functionality as part

> of

> their job. To try to get around this issue, we setup policy so they

> received

> network printers.

>

> Now we are having two problems:

> 1. The user with the client printer can't set her local printer as

> default

> after she logs in and have it persist through so the next time she logs in

> it

> remains the default printer

> 2. The double sided print settings for our other two users on the network

> printer won't persist through another login, so when they make change to

> double sided (duplex) printing, and then log out for the day, when they

> log

> back in to TS server, it has reverted back to the single sided printing.

>

> Does this look like a printer policy issue where the printers are being

> re-pushed at every login, overwriting settings? Or is this an issue with

> the

> TS client? Thank you in advance!