Single user account and terminal services 2008 printing woes

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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
 
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
 
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