Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Matt — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:10:29 GMT

Renaming Printers was working fabulous for me with RenPrinters without adding the users to the Print Operators group:

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

ant0 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:19:46 GMT

This discussion seems to have tailed off, does this mean we are still without a decent solution?

I just want to be able to manage all printer that are redirected without having to manually add permissions each time, Please someone help because the default setting on printers are preventing users from printing!

Thanks

Anthony

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Jaxone — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:32:10 GMT

HELP !!!

I have 2 Terminal servers running in a farm with TS Session Broker.

I have .Net 3.0 and 4.0 installed on both machines.

TS Easy Print driver installed.

When I connect to the remote desktop with ANY user (and I mean any user) I can see that the printer ports are created on the terminal server as TS001 ... TS005 , Port Monitor Name : Dynamic Print Monitor , Port Description : COMPUTERNAME:PRN2 to PRN7 but the Printer Name is Empty !!

So the ports are getting mapped but I don't see any Printers.

I have tried also installing the HP Universal printer driver and changing the GPO to not use Easy Print first , same problem , with or without the GPO.

No errors in the event log , nothing ...

I have tried to install a new machine and add it to the same TS Session Broker farm and on the new machine printer redirection works fine ... but not on my 2 older servers.

Is there any way that I can enable some more extensive logging to see what is happening and why are my printers not mapped ?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

fahlis — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:32:36 GMT

Hello, very interesting thread, I have come up with redirected printer problems at 2 customers who both use TS2008 server one of them even R2.

Thing is, these 2 customers have 2 different LOB applications but I see the same kind of problem in both of them.

Symptoms:

When a user connects to the TS (Printer Mapping not activated in RDP client) they only get deployed printers showing up of corse. However these users sometimes connects from their home or other external places, and not everytime they have the printer reditrection deactivated and thus of corse get a (redirected 1) session får all local printers, next time the do the same the get (redirected 2) and so on.

No problem att all with that in regards to "normal" applications. However for the 2 LOB applications there´s a big big problem, When they use the print dialog and is to choose a printer listed they can see all historical (redirected) printers in the list, and I have seen as many as 100 for som users :(

As I said they´re only shown in the LOB applications not in the windows session itself.

This is a situation they can´t have but how can I fix this permanently ?

I have checked by regedit and sure enough I can find these (redirected) printers there at various places and if I delete them manually they are gone int eh LOB app too, but then teh user connects again with printer redirection enabled and the list starts to build up again :(

The long list of printers is here in the registry.

HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Printers\DevModePerUser

HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Printers\DevModes2

HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software\Hewlett-Packard\DemFileData\

HKEY_USERS\DEFAULT\Software\Hewlett-Packard\DemFileData\TSSERVERNAME

HKEY_USERS\S-I-D\Printers\DevModePerUser

HKEY_USERS\S-I-D\Printers\Settings

HKEY_USERS\S-I-D\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices

HKEY_USERS\S-I-D\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts

In the TS lockdown policy we have

Do not set default client printer to be default printer in a session not configured

Do not allow client printer redirection not configured

Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer first disabled

Specify RD Session Host server fallback printer driver behavior enabled (Default to PCL if one is not found)

Does anyone have a solution at hand ?

/Tony

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Kamil — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 12:25:03 GMT

Hi,

I have remote Windows 2008 R2 64 bit. I use easy print service. i can see my all priter in Terminal services. But i can not send any PCL files to redirect priter. i can see my files on spooler but then it loosing.

how can i send PCL filen to printer use easy print service

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Bharat — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:55:18 GMT

I have remote window server 2008, in my remote machine i can see redirected printers. but if i select redirected printer as default I could not select other pronters for pronting prpose. what should be done for this. is there some setting . pls help

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Marco E. — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:44:39 GMT

Hi, have a problem with RD Easy Print, i want to always the server try to locate the correct driver for the printer, we use windows 2008 r2 and it's part of a domain (same windows), i'm using the inf file map option to assign the correct driver, it only works for the administrator, but not for the normal users, any idea?.

another question... is there an easy option where the domain administrator or any user with privileges to see every printer on the server? i not even can troubleshoot because i can't see on the events corresponding to other sessions... my user have admin permissions...

Tks

Marco

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Stephen Walsh — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 17:02:08 GMT

so i have this setup and it seems to be working well except for a couple of my users... coiuple things I was wondering it it was possible:

1. Not sure why this is happening, but when a user clicks on the x or sometimes logs in very close together the old printer is kept in the old session. So now the user logs in and well they only see the default pritner in their current session when going to devices and printers... BUT in the program they are using: Simply Accounting 2009, it keeps the OLD printer as their default inside simply from the last session, not the current session. So is there a way to say on login, delete any of these printers, or every 5 minutes run a script to delete these old session printers??? This is driving me nuts....

Thanks,

Steve

stephen.walsh [[-at]] wnlsd.ca

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Christian Lausten — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:53:09 GMT

I found that it is a problem, that easyprint changes default printer when you log onto the terminal server with or without local print resources.

If you logon 3 times to the terminal server in this manner - you change the mess up the default printer setting.

1st login - from office - with no local printer resources. Set default printer to printer 1

2nd login - from home with local printer resources. Default printer will be set to the Local printer at home.

3rd login - from office - with no local printer resources. The default printer is now not printer1 or local printer from home - It seems that the last printer from the printer list on the server is choosen as default printer.

How do i create a setup where i can use network printers in the office - with one printer selected as default, and use an easyprint "local printer" at home without changing the default printer every time i change location.

re: Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 3

Jeff Nay — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:14:57 GMT

This is an administration nightmare... Great job on the universal driver, works fine, but as an administrator I need to be able to control the printers on my network. We do not use very many redirected printers, but when they are used, I need to see them and delete them, without having to change permissions to allow myself the right to delete the redirected printers on my TS server every time they are redirected... Am I missing something here???