Terminal Service Printer Install

[dfgu]

Hello,
I'm having trouble with Terminal Services and local printers. From my knowledge, when you log into terminal services, it see's your local printer, and sets it as default so that you can print.
My problem is that it works with some printers, and some printers it does not work. When i got into event viewer, it says "Printer could not be installed".
Does anyone know why that is?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[MitchCumstein]

You must first install the printer on the Terminal Server with the printer driver having the same name as the one on the client. If the names are different, you can

1. Downgrade the driver on server and client and lose some functionality (ex: use HP Deskjet 600 driver for later models), or

2. Modify ntprint.inf on the server (see

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q239088

)

 

[evonne]

Yes we had a similar problem. If you install the driver on the WTS it should work. For network printers you need to map a the network printer to a local lpt port on the client using the net use command

net use lpt1 \\servername\printer /persistent /y

This did the trick for us.