Single user account and terminal services 2008 printing woes

[Guest YADER.CELL@gmail.com]

Hello,

 

I am in charge of administrating a small size network with approx 40

users. I am currently testing TS 2008 to see if it will meet our

company requirement. One of the tasks I need to be able complete is

to NOT restrict a user to a single session. For example, I would like

to have a single ID set for TS 2008 and have everyone log on via the

same account.

 

One of the advantages of TS 2008 I found out reading googles is that

TS 2008 redirects printers per session and you are not installing any

printer drivers to the server.

 

The issue I am having is that I am not able to select a default

printer to the client. Even although the printers * appears to be

transferring over to the TS 2008 session doing a simple word pad

print always * prompt you to select to which printer you wish to

print.

 

is there any way to preset the default printer so it knows where to

print without getting prompted?

 

thank you in advance.

 

Yader

[Guest Ratnesh Yadav [MSFT]]

Re: Single user account and terminal services 2008 printing woes

 

Reply from one of my colleague,

 

1.) Can I use a single monolithic account for all users of the

Terminal Servers - This is a big "no no" and probably stems from another

requirement such as ease of administration/configuration. It is

acceptable for all the users to point to a single MANDITORY Terminal

Services Roaming Profile (The reason it needs to be manual is because a

standard profile will suffer from last writer wins session state

problems and will be a huge problem for user settings) but each user needs

to have a unique logon ID. Not only for the reasons above, but also because

of security concerns (what is someone

downloads/deletes data on their last day after being fired? If everyone had

the same account, you would have no way of knowing who did it)

2.) Consistently setting the same printer in a TS session - This is

easily accomplished using mechanisms such as the PrintUI interfaces to map

network printers. In using network print queues, the Terminal

Server will automatically point and print the drivers from the trusted

source - the print server. This should give them what they need. As far as

individual applications go, they all either provide

their own Print dialog or use the inbox print dialog (such as notepad,

wordpad and mspaint) where users can choose to select other printers for

their given output. If nothing is changed in that dialog, by

default all output will be sent to the default printer (which will be

decorated in session with a black circle with a white check mark)

 

Ratnesh

 

<YADER.CELL@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1472a27a-5ad6-4c31-a016-41cf7fadfcd4@24g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...

> Hello,

>

> I am in charge of administrating a small size network with approx 40

> users. I am currently testing TS 2008 to see if it will meet our

> company requirement. One of the tasks I need to be able complete is

> to NOT restrict a user to a single session. For example, I would like

> to have a single ID set for TS 2008 and have everyone log on via the

> same account.

>

> One of the advantages of TS 2008 I found out reading googles is that

> TS 2008 redirects printers per session and you are not installing any

> printer drivers to the server.

>

> The issue I am having is that I am not able to select a default

> printer to the client. Even although the printers * appears to be

> transferring over to the TS 2008 session doing a simple word pad

> print always * prompt you to select to which printer you wish to

> print.

>

> is there any way to preset the default printer so it knows where to

> print without getting prompted?

>

> thank you in advance.

>

> Yader