Printer Drivers on Terminal Server 2003

[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

 

[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
>

 

[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/windo...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
>
>