Win 2008

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Hi,
Currently my users log on to Terminal Services they see the printers as i
want. However, the printers have a session number after them. This obviously
changes depending on the time of day / when they log on etc.
Is there any way i can remove this feature as it is quite annoying and is
causing problems for 3rd party applications.

Thanks
David
 
Re: Win 2008

There is no direct way to tell TS to not add session ID at the end of the
printer names. Also, there is no way to have a fixed name across
disconnect/reconnect of the same session since it will always have the
current session ID at the end.

In case you want to change the printer name, you can use a program using the
WMI class Win32_Printer to set the printer name. You will have to do it
every time a session is connected. The program can be intelligent enough to
create the printer name at runtime by querying for the current session ID
and appending that at the end of the name. You can set the program to run at
every connect.

If the app is broken because it is trying to find the printer by name, which
keeps changing, the app should be fixed to use functions like
GetDefaultPrinter to get the default printer.

Thanks!

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"Andreas" <Andreas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:48C5A152-C489-4199-8827-0405780525E5@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> Currently my users log on to Terminal Services they see the printers as i
> want. However, the printers have a session number after them. This
> obviously
> changes depending on the time of day / when they log on etc.
> Is there any way i can remove this feature as it is quite annoying and is
> causing problems for 3rd party applications.
>
> Thanks
> David
>
 
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