Hello, does anyone know of a way to get Terminal Services to connect a
clients Default printer ONLY??
We have several clients connecting and most of them have 5 - 10
printers installed when they connect. This is a drain on server
resources.

All I want to do is to connect the clients default printer ONLY.
Does anyone know of an easy, inexpensive server-side solution?
Thanks,

-Mike

Hmm...By default, and as far as I know the only way, is
that all client printers as mapped.

Citrix allows you to do this, but buying a huge piece of
software just to do such a simple job probably isn't worth
it.

-M

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello, does anyone know of a way to get Terminal Services
to connect a
>clients Default printer ONLY??
>We have several clients connecting and most of them have
5 - 10
>printers installed when they connect. This is a drain on
server
>resources.
>
>All I want to do is to connect the clients default
printer ONLY.
>Does anyone know of an easy, inexpensive server-side
solution?
>Thanks,
>
>-Mike
>.
>

You are correct. The is also a third party app that will do it too
(tricerat.com - screwdrivers) but it is $1500 per server... not an
option.
Does anyone know of another app or script, perhaps??

Thanks,


"Mattgew Harris [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<f5dd01c3f1bb$92483550$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Hmm...By default, and as far as I know the only way, is
> that all client printers as mapped.
>
> Citrix allows you to do this, but buying a huge piece of
> software just to do such a simple job probably isn't worth
> it.
>
> -M
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello, does anyone know of a way to get Terminal Services
> to connect a
> >clients Default printer ONLY??
> >We have several clients connecting and most of them have
> 5 - 10
> >printers installed when they connect. This is a drain on
> server
> >resources.
> >
> >All I want to do is to connect the clients default
> printer ONLY.
> >Does anyone know of an easy, inexpensive server-side
> solution?
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-Mike
> >.
> >

I could probably write a script to disconnect printers
that are't the default, but this by far wouldn't be
optimal. My only thought is that you either create a hook
to intercept the printer calls from terminal services, or
you manually turn off client printer mapping and then just
run a script to manually map the first printer...

-M

>-----Original Message-----
>You are correct. The is also a third party app that will
do it too
>(tricerat.com - screwdrivers) but it is $1500 per
server... not an
>option.
>Does anyone know of another app or script, perhaps??
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>"Mattgew Harris [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in message news:<f5dd01c3f1bb$92483550$(E-Mail Removed)>...
>> Hmm...By default, and as far as I know the only way, is
>> that all client printers as mapped.
>>
>> Citrix allows you to do this, but buying a huge piece
of
>> software just to do such a simple job probably isn't
worth
>> it.
>>
>> -M
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Hello, does anyone know of a way to get Terminal
Services
>> to connect a
>> >clients Default printer ONLY??
>> >We have several clients connecting and most of them
have
>> 5 - 10
>> >printers installed when they connect. This is a drain
on
>> server
>> >resources.
>> >
>> >All I want to do is to connect the clients default
>> printer ONLY.
>> >Does anyone know of an easy, inexpensive server-side
>> solution?
>> >Thanks,
>> >
>> >-Mike
>> >.
>> >
>.
>

I know it is possible to write a script to disconnect any printer
except the default, but you are right - this is NOT optimal.
My objective is to not connect those printers in the first place.

You mentioned connecting a printer via a script... how would you go
about doing this??

Thanks for your input!

"Matthew Harris [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<f78001c3f286$abfe3910$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I could probably write a script to disconnect printers
> that are't the default, but this by far wouldn't be
> optimal. My only thought is that you either create a hook
> to intercept the printer calls from terminal services, or
> you manually turn off client printer mapping and then just
> run a script to manually map the first printer...
>
> -M
>

Assuming you want to only connect to the default printer
and not disconnect all the other printers, I'm willing to
bet your could automate what this article talks about...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;243552&Product=win2000

The unfortunate thing is that you wouldn't know what type
of printer the client was using, and therefore you
wouldn't know what type of driver to use for the printer
at port TS001. Hmm...it might just be easier to connect
all the printers and delete everything but the non-default
one...

....in that case, you could just query the default
printer's name, and delete every other printer who's name
does not equal the default printer's name. Is this sound
like something you are interested in? I might be able to
come up with a script to do it...

-M

>-----Original Message-----
>I know it is possible to write a script to disconnect any
printer
>except the default, but you are right - this is NOT
optimal.
>My objective is to not connect those printers in the
first place.
>
>You mentioned connecting a printer via a script... how
would you go
>about doing this??
>
>Thanks for your input!
>
>"Matthew Harris [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in message news:<f78001c3f286$abfe3910$(E-Mail Removed)>...
>> I could probably write a script to disconnect printers
>> that are't the default, but this by far wouldn't be
>> optimal. My only thought is that you either create a
hook
>> to intercept the printer calls from terminal services,
or
>> you manually turn off client printer mapping and then
just
>> run a script to manually map the first printer...
>>
>> -M
>>
>.
>

This is a good point, however connecting all the printers from the
start is what I am trying to avoid. So simply disconnecting all but
the default is not an option. There must be some way to accomplish
what we need.
I would be more than happy to compensate your efforts if this could be
achieved.

"Matthew Harris [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<1205201c3f5a4$25c70ef0$(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Assuming you want to only connect to the default printer
> and not disconnect all the other printers, I'm willing to
> bet your could automate what this article talks about...
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;243552&Product=win2000
>
> The unfortunate thing is that you wouldn't know what type
> of printer the client was using, and therefore you
> wouldn't know what type of driver to use for the printer
> at port TS001. Hmm...it might just be easier to connect
> all the printers and delete everything but the non-default
> one...
>
> ...in that case, you could just query the default
> printer's name, and delete every other printer who's name
> does not equal the default printer's name. Is this sound
> like something you are interested in? I might be able to
> come up with a script to do it...
>
> -M
>

I know that Citrix can do this...so there obviously must
be a way to do this through normal terminal services.
However, I'm a little stumped as far as the best way to go
about this. I'm going to look around a little bit and if
I find anything, I'll post it here.

Just had a thought...and you might want to try this on the
off chance this it will work. You might be able to print
directly to the port, much in the same way you could print
directly to the lpt port. I'm going to test this out,
although I'm a little skeptical.

-M

>-----Original Message-----
>This is a good point, however connecting all the printers
from the
>start is what I am trying to avoid. So simply
disconnecting all but
>the default is not an option. There must be some way to
accomplish
>what we need.
>I would be more than happy to compensate your efforts if
this could be
>achieved.
>
>"Matthew Harris [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
in message news:<1205201c3f5a4$25c70ef0
$(E-Mail Removed)>...
>> Assuming you want to only connect to the default
printer
>> and not disconnect all the other printers, I'm willing
to
>> bet your could automate what this article talks about...
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
>> us;243552&Product=win2000
>>
>> The unfortunate thing is that you wouldn't know what
type
>> of printer the client was using, and therefore you
>> wouldn't know what type of driver to use for the
printer
>> at port TS001. Hmm...it might just be easier to
connect
>> all the printers and delete everything but the non-
default
>> one...
>>
>> ...in that case, you could just query the default
>> printer's name, and delete every other printer who's
name
>> does not equal the default printer's name. Is this
sound
>> like something you are interested in? I might be able
to
>> come up with a script to do it...
>>
>> -M
>>
>.
>