Printing at remote office

[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

 

[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