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I noticed that when connecting to one system (WS2003) via Remote
Desktop, two of my local printers just show up in the remote printer
configuration. I did not add them manually, so they appear to have
been mapped as part of my Remote Desktop connection. My local PC is XP
SP2.
On another remote system (Vista), I try the same thing and I see two
printers, but neither are local. This remote system is running in a VM
on Virtual Server 2005 R2 (and actually, it is running on the same
WS2003 box my first test used).
After some query on the net, I found a hint that all I may really have
to do is configure the printer in the remote (Vista) machine. However,
when I try to do so, three local printers show up with the names PRN2,
PRN3 and PRN4 on ports TS001, TS002 and TS003. Ok, fine, it looks like
I can select the desired printer and add it to the remote system.
However, I've so far been unable to find out which printer is which--
how do I translate the names seen by the remote system (PRN2, PRN3 and
PRN4) to the names I'm seeing on my local system so I can tell them
apart? I actually have more than three local printers. I suppose I
can just try to print to them one by one and see where things come
out, but I would think there's a better way than that to identify them.
I couldn't find anything in the local printer properties that
identifies them by the PRN-type names or TS### port identifiers. The
printer I'd like to be using is attached to my local (XP) system on
LPT1...
Desktop, two of my local printers just show up in the remote printer
configuration. I did not add them manually, so they appear to have
been mapped as part of my Remote Desktop connection. My local PC is XP
SP2.
On another remote system (Vista), I try the same thing and I see two
printers, but neither are local. This remote system is running in a VM
on Virtual Server 2005 R2 (and actually, it is running on the same
WS2003 box my first test used).
After some query on the net, I found a hint that all I may really have
to do is configure the printer in the remote (Vista) machine. However,
when I try to do so, three local printers show up with the names PRN2,
PRN3 and PRN4 on ports TS001, TS002 and TS003. Ok, fine, it looks like
I can select the desired printer and add it to the remote system.
However, I've so far been unable to find out which printer is which--
how do I translate the names seen by the remote system (PRN2, PRN3 and
PRN4) to the names I'm seeing on my local system so I can tell them
apart? I actually have more than three local printers. I suppose I
can just try to print to them one by one and see where things come
out, but I would think there's a better way than that to identify them.
I couldn't find anything in the local printer properties that
identifies them by the PRN-type names or TS### port identifiers. The
printer I'd like to be using is attached to my local (XP) system on
LPT1...