[THIN] Re: Local Printers and Local Drives

  • From: "Sean Casey" <casey@xxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 11:22:24 -0400

I turned it off in the beginning then users needed it...

Welcome to my headache...

-Sean
________________________________________________________________

Sean P. Casey
System Administrator (NT)
Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
Queen's University, 210A Carruthers Hall
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6

Telephone:  (613) 530-4665
FAX:  (613) 548-8104
e-mail:  casey@xxxxxx
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Heather Axworthy" <heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:10 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Local Printers and Local Drives


>
> I've never encountered users printers causing a reboot to the server.  I
> do notice a performance issue from time to time.  I'm not a huge fan of
> it.  I would be interested in knowing if there is a way to turn off the
> re-direction for certain users.
>
> For some users it is helpful, for others it is a hindrance.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Sean Casey
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:53 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Local Printers and Local Drives
>
>
> Heather and Casey;
> Have you ever encountered local printers (users printers) causing the
> server
> to reboot....??.... I have and had to turn off client printers and
> client
> printer mappings. Have you heard of a fix???
>
> -Sean
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> Sean P. Casey
> System Administrator (NT)
> Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
> Queen's University, 210A Carruthers Hall
> Kingston, Ontario
> K7L 3N6
>
> Telephone:  (613) 530-4665
> FAX:  (613) 548-8104
> e-mail:  casey@xxxxxx
> ________________________________________________________________
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Heather Axworthy" <heather@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 10:46 AM
> Subject: [THIN] Re: Local Printers and Local Drives
>
>
> >
> > Hi Casey,
> >
> > In my environment, we also only run W2K Terminal Services, no Citrix.
> >
> > There's an article on the MS website, you might find it helpful.
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/en/server/help/ts_cli_c_print.htm
> >
> > It details how TS re-directs client printing.
> >
> > Heather
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Friese, Casey
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:46 AM
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Local Printers and Local Drives
> >
> >
> > I'm looking for advices on using local printers a drives of client =
> > machines which connect through both TSweb and the TSClient.
> >
> > All users connect from home to the network using VPN.  The user that I
> =
> > am testing needs to print to his local printer which is an Epson C80
> and
> > =
> > is attached to his local LPT1 port.  The user is on Windows XP.  The =
> > user also need to access both his floppy drive and his CD drive
> through
> > =
> > the terminal session.
> >
> > I've read that the drives need to be shared on the client PC and then
> =
> > mapped to from the terminal session.  This is going to pose a problem
> =
> > considering that we don't let users map drives from a terminal
> session.
> >
> > I think I remember Citrix Metaframe automatically mapping the user's =
> > local drives upon connection.  Is there a way to do this with just =
> > Terminal Services 2000?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Casey
> >
> >
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