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I have a strange RDP issue. I picked up a client that does a LOT of work via RDP, including a lot of printing. In the past they had local printers that automatically added themselves in the remote session.

Now they use the new version of RDP and their printer is a Network Printer. That is to say, it is using a standard TCP/IP port and isn't connected over an SMB share. This printer never adds itself when connected to the remote client. Sometimes, and only sometimes, I can setup a local printer on the remote machine and then change the port to the proper TS port. However, quite often the port changes on connect or it just stays as inactive.

Any suggestions on how to make this work consistently or an idea for a work around? They had been told in the past that "it can't be done" but somehow it was working fine previously. However, we had to redo their network and their PCs and now it is being stupid.

Mar 11, 2007 9:41pm PDT

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I have a strange RDP issue. I picked up a client that does a LOT of work via RDP, including a lot of pri... : rosewood
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  how about also sharing the networked printer on the RDP host? : Prozium
  - The RDP host, aka the computer they are connecting to, has no way of connecting back to this local networ... : rosewood
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  if they do so much work RDP why not setup a VPN instead and just implement a login script to map their st... : beastrabban
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    Because they can't. Since I have some PRL time to burn, I'll splain further. Although really, I s... : rosewood
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      ah ok I understand. roll back to RDP 5..? perhaps have their clients setup FTP sites for them to just l... : beastrabban
      
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      or if they insist on RDP what about VNC? it's free and pretty robust.. : beastrabban
      
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      except vnc supports no printing redirection. Why are you trying to change what works? : rosewood
      
      because what works is obviously NOT working otherwise you wouldn't have posted this question?? jeez ma... : beastrabban
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  we have found the same issue at our workplace. We have many users who are connecting to a rdp server and can't map their network printers. We've found the only way to make it function is to setup a network printer server and SMB share the printers centrally. Once the clients map to that, you can guarantee it will map appropriately within the terminal services session. No idea why, and we just advocated this to our clients, because they are significantly large enough to warrant a print server.
  
  In your case it sounds like there's some problem with this, but perhaps try mapping it off another PC smb share?
  
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  we have found the same issue at our workplace. We have many users who are connecting to a rdp server and... : Q-ball

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