Printing to a text file on network drive

[babcockc]

I have a problem printing to a text file on a network drive from within a Citrix 1.8 session. I created a Generic Text Printer on our print server. That part is fine. When I go to print to this printer, it asks for the path of the Output file...

If I give it a local path (ie. m:\test.txt), it prints to a text file just fine. If I give it a network path (ie. i:\test.txt where i:\ is a drive that IS currently mapped) it errors out while spooling.

The reason I am confident it is a Citrix problem is that when I do this exact same thing locally on my workstation (not within a Citrix session) it works just fine. I can print to the Generic Text File printer on the printer server and point the Output path to a network drive and it works perfectly. Only within the Citrix session does it fail.

Any ideas?

 

[tk36]

If the application you are running is anonymous type, I reckon it's because from Citris session, you are logging on as anon user and not a domain user so you can't access (network mapped) drive i. If that is the case, there are 2 things, I know that will make it work. 1 is to write a batch script to run this publish application, add a line to map network drive using password /user:domain\username option. 2 is to republish the application as an explicit one so you can log on as a domain user.

 

[babcockc]

First of all the problem is not application specific, the same issues happen in Word, Excel, ADP, Solomon, AAOD...everything. If you print to the Generic/Text printer and try to print the output file on a network drive...it fails. Secondly, this is happening while logged in as a Domain User, Domain Admin, anyone...not anonymous. Thirdly, none of the applications are published...they are just applications running on the server.

 

[tk36]

Oh, So that didn't help then. Sorry!