Shared Printer problem with Terminal Sessions

[deathstar]

I am having a problem that I can't seem to resolve. I have a workstation where it's sharing a USB printer to other users in the office area. All users are able to print to the shared printer without any problems, however when the users connect to a W2K3 terminal server it no longer works. I read several forum and many other users are also having this problem, can anyone tell me if they were ever able to get this type of setup to work.

I installed a basic driver for the printer (HP Laserjet 4) and ran many tests so I am 100% positive that the problem lies with the Terminal Session and the shared printer which it's trying to take control of. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Zelandakh]

Is it an HP printer by any chance?

 

[deathstar]

No it's actually a Lexmark. I am using the HP Laserjet 4 drivers and it works from all ends (Server, Workstation sharing the printer and also any remote workstations trying to print to it).

I was incorrect when I stated that it's no longer working. Actually it never worked and I need to get this up and running ASAP.

Thanks for your response

 

[Zelandakh]

On that workstation, try this:

Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
In the left pane, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR
Note To configure default printer redirection for only the current user, locate and then click the following registry subkey instead:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
Type RedirectDefaultPrinterOnly, and then press ENTER.
Double-click RedirectDefaultPrinterOnly, type 1 in the Value data box, and then click OK.

Note Type 0 in the Value data box to disable the registry entry. Setting the value data to 0 turns off default printer redirection.
On the File menu, click Exit to quit Registry Editor.

Works for me when I see this sort of thing but never use Lexmark so it might be something else.

 

[Zelandakh]

Right idea, wrong copy/paste...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server
Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR]
"FilterQueueType"=dword:ffffffff

is what I meant.

 

[deathstar]

Hi Zelandakh

I already tried this to no avail, this was one of the first work arounds I attempted with no succes. I am still searching the NET to see if anyone was able to get this to work, if there I will post it so anyone having this problem will be able to get it to work.

 

[Zelandakh]

Why can't you use the real Lexmark drivers?