Terminal Services permissions issue 1

[Magzy]

Hi All,

I have a setup as follows:

Single DC (2008 x32)
Separate TS (2008 x32)
TS licensing is on the DC.

This is all hosted on Hyper-V. The install is vanilla in terms of permissions and all TS users are setup in the remote desktop users group.

For one user, the printers, remote disks etc don't come over unless he is setup as an administrator. If I add him as an admin then it all works great, but if I remove him from that role then nothing comes across. The user in question is running Windows 7 x64 on his PC.

Is there anything special that I need to do tweak the permissions to make this work?

Cheers,

Magz .

 

[PScottC]

Yes. You need to pre-load all printer drivers on the TS. 64- and 32-bit drivers need to have the exact same name for proper mapping to occur.

Or... Disable printer passthrough and assign printers by GPO or script.

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[Magzy]

Thanks! That makes sense now. I was wondering why it worked OK for some users and not others but it presumably they are using printers for which the server already has a driver.

 

[w33mhz]

Another way is to use the TS Easy Print driver

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2007/04/26/introducing-terminal-services-easy-print-part-1.aspx

Easy print driver will basicly redirect the printing to use the local drivers on the client.

Now if you have XP clients there is some special considerations for that. The client needs .Net 3.5 installed (rather long d/l and install) and the tswpfwrp.exe file from a Win7 or vista machine (overwrite the one on your xp machine c:\windows\system32) to my knowledge they haven't fixed that yet, so you don't need to update that file.


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