Print drivers installation

[Guest]

All of my users have different printers at their location, in my event viewer
I have tons of events indicating that no such print drivers installed on the
server. Is there an article or a procedure that shows how to install print
drivers in the server without having printers phisically installed on the
server. It would be nice to have my remote users be able to print on their
home printers.

Thanks for the reply.

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

Installing 3th party printer drivers on a TS is *not* recommended.
Most of these drivers are not completely TS compatible, and are
known to crash the printer spooler or the whole server.
If your client printers are not autocreated, check the EventLog to
find the reason. If the server doesn't recognize the printer, map
the printer to a native driver on the server, by creating a custom
ntprintsubs.inf file. Details are explained here:

239088 - Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111,
1105, and 1106
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=239088

You can check the recommended native driver substitution for your
local printers here:

Client Printer Autocreation Matrix
http://www.printingsupport.com/matrix.htm

If you are running 2003 SP1 on your Terminal Server, you can
configure a Terminal Server Fallback Printer Driver. For more info,
check:

http://www.thelazyadmin.com/index.php?/archives/18-Terminal-Server-
Fallback-Printer-Driver.html#extended

Check to see if your Group Policy or local policy is set to
"Prevent Users from installing Print Drivers".
If this is NOT enabled, a user with a newer signed driver will
unknowingly and automatically propagate its' driver to the terminal
server, which means that your servers will use different driver
versions, even though you didn't intentionally install newer
drivers.

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[Guest]

If after doing all of the things MSFT suggests to support client printers (or
if you don't have the time ot monkey around with all of this and just want it
ot work), you still have some that can't print, or can't print with the
features they need (double-sided, correct tray/mailbox...) there are 3rd
partry "solutions" that remove the need to worry about printer drivers
altogether. For about the price of a laptop computer, each of these products
will allow you to print to virtually any client printer with the
full-functionality that the user has whe printing locally:

ThinPrint Remote Desktop Printing Engine
Provision Networks Print-IT
triCerat Simplify Printing (aka screwdrivers)
UniPrint

More info here:
http://www.workthin.com/tsp.htm


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Patrick Rouse
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
http://www.workthin.com