Printing at remote office

[Guest UnderCoverGuy]

Hello and good morning. We have a remote office that are connecting to the

HQ office via terminal services (Windows 2003 SP2). One workstation at the

remote office has Windows XP and a HP printer attached locally via a USB

connection. The other workstations are thin-clients. I need the

thin-clients to be able to print to the locally attached printer on the XP

workstation. The XP system is not a domain member.

 

The printer is shared when someone has logged on to TS on the XP

workstation. However, how can I set up the printer to allow printing to it

even if no one has established a TS session from the workstation on which it

is connected? I don't have another port / drop otherwise I would share out

the printer on the domain via TCP/IP, open the ports, etc - so basically the

printer needs to stay connected via USB. I can't share it on the local

workstation and publish in AD because the XP workstation is not an AD member.

The thin-clients are only RDP to TS at HQ so they can't see the "local"

workgroup shared printer.

 

Any assistance would be appreciated,

Thanks,

UCG

[Guest TP]

Re: Printing at remote office

 

Hi,

 

Some thin clients have the ability to connect to network

printers that are shared on other machines. Using this

technique you could share the printer on the XP machine

and then install it on the thin clients. When the users

connect to the TS from the thin clients the printer would

be autocreated within the session.

 

-TP

 

UnderCoverGuy wrote:

> Hello and good morning. We have a remote office that are connecting

> to the HQ office via terminal services (Windows 2003 SP2). One

> workstation at the remote office has Windows XP and a HP printer

> attached locally via a USB connection. The other workstations are

> thin-clients. I need the thin-clients to be able to print to the

> locally attached printer on the XP workstation. The XP system is not

> a domain member.

>

> The printer is shared when someone has logged on to TS on the XP

> workstation. However, how can I set up the printer to allow printing

> to it even if no one has established a TS session from the

> workstation on which it is connected? I don't have another port /

> drop otherwise I would share out the printer on the domain via

> TCP/IP, open the ports, etc - so basically the printer needs to stay

> connected via USB. I can't share it on the local workstation and

> publish in AD because the XP workstation is not an AD member. The

> thin-clients are only RDP to TS at HQ so they can't see the "local"

> workgroup shared printer.

>

> Any assistance would be appreciated,

> Thanks,

> UCG