[THIN] Re: Advice please - PS 4.0 printer driver files being updated when server reboots

Hi Jay,
 
One of the major sources of rogue drivers with one customer turned out to be 
the administrators. You og on to a server using RDP for admin, and the drivers 
off your workstation get sucked up to the server when your RDP session printer 
autocreates. To stop that we use a custom group policy to disable RDP printer 
autocreation. 
 
I'm running a few 2000 server sites with server 2003 drivers. That gives you a 
much broader choice of native (non port monitor etc) drivers to choose. It's 
reasonably straight forward and I posted how to do that a while ago.
 
regards,
 
Rick
 
Ulrich Mack 
Volante Systems 


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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Jay Schaefer
Sent: Thu 31/08/2006 0:12
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Advice please - PS 4.0 printer driver files being updated when 
server reboots


We have several Windows 2000 servers (PS 4.0) with R02 hotfix.  We reboot the 
servers at night and in the morning we are having some printing issues with HP 
4000, 8000 printers because the print drivers are being updated on the Citrix 
servers (c:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3 directory).  These printers 
are networked printers (imported from print server).  The new files are not 
coming from the print server, and even happens when the server logins are 
disabled so I know they are not coming from a user. 
 
Any ideas? 
 
Oh - if we install a new local printer using the driver from our print server 
everything is fine again.
 
Thanks for any input.
 
Jay Schaefer
Winnebago County

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