Remote Desktop Connection printing.

[G0AOZ]

[blue]Client[/blue] PC is running XP Pro SP2, all patches. [red]Host[/red] machine is identical setup, and has an HP printer/scanner attached to the LAN using the printer's own internal network interface. [blue]Client[/blue] connects to [red]Host[/red] ok using Remote Desktop, and all programmes are accessible.

1. With this setup, [blue]Client[/blue] is unable to print to the [red]Host's[/red] network printer. Is this to be expected, or will RDC only work to a [red]Host[/red] printer attached using parallel or USB?

2. With this same connection, as I understand it printing should also work to a printer attached to the [blue]Client[/blue]. The printer attached to the [blue]Client[/blue] is USB. Does this printer driver need to be installed on the [red]Host[/red] machine, and if yes, what should it be installed as? Just a local USB, or a network printer?

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[HughLerwill]

>and has an HP printer/scanner attached to the LAN using the printer's own internal network interface

From this do I take it that Host has two network cards? i.e. One leading to the other PC (via Router?) and one connected to the printer.

Is the printer shared?

 

[picarolio]

For Terminal Services if someone wishes to print to a client computer then they would have to install the printer on the host. The connection used is a Remote Session Connection.

For your application though I think there is an option within your Remote Connection to use your local printers under the Local Resources Tab.

 

[G0AOZ]

HughLerwill, no, only one network card. The [red]Host[/red] is connected to a small LAN with one other computer, a router and the HP printer/scanner. As far as I'm aware the printer is shared as the other computer is able to print to it.

Picarolio, yes I'd seen that Local Resources tab on the [blue]Client[/blue] machine, but user said he couldn't print locally. So that's why I wondered if the printer driver needed to be actually installed on the [red]Host[/red].

ROGER - G0AOZ.