Printing to LPT1 and Map Client Drives

[Guest]

We are trying to implement the terminal services for our applications. One of these applications prints directly to the LPT1 (in the client). We have already look for information about this, but it seems that its not possible to do that unless we map the local lpt1 port (of the client) in the terminal server. We would like to know if is this the rigth solution or there is another way to do this.
The applications we use in terminal services generate reports that can be saved in local drives, of course we DON'T want the users to save information on the server, we want to force them to save every file they need in their local drives. How can we do this?

 

[Matthew Harris [MVP]]

You'd need to map the lpt1 port to print to the client's
redirected printer. You can do this through a script.
While this is the right solution, it is admittedly a hack.

If you want to save data to your client's drives, then you
might want to look into using TSDropCopy from AnalogX.com,
since this will allow you to view the client's drives
relatively easily.

-M

-----Original Message-----
We are trying to implement the terminal services for our

applications. One of these applications prints directly to
the LPT1 (in the client). We have already look for
information about this, but it seems that its not possible
to do that unless we map the local lpt1 port (of the
client) in the terminal server. We would like to know if
is this the rigth solution or there is another way to do
this.

The applications we use in terminal services generate

reports that can be saved in local drives, of course we
DON'T want the users to save information on the server, we
want to force them to save every file they need in their
local drives. How can we do this?