[THIN] Re: Vista printer driver

How about trying to map the drivers, ie. A close enought generic driver that 
will be Citrix friendly on Citrix but also work by mapping half decently to the 
driver the Server Team wants to use?

----- Original Message -----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue May 29 13:47:48 2007
Subject: [THIN] Re: Vista printer driver

As we are constantly buying a lot of new PC’s from DELL and all of them have 
Vista preinstalled our management decided not to downgrade Vista to XP anymore.

At the moment our DSS (Server and Desktop Support) are going to install only MS 
printer drivers so they shouldn’t have any problem with drivers’ certification.

 

I am really afraid of installing any new printer drivers on Citrix/Ts as we had 
a lot of problems with them few years ago.

Is it possible to keep Windows XP/2000 drivers on print servers and still print 
from Vista? 

 

Thanks, Zygmunt Cwalinski, System Analyst Network Services 
905-281-5583 

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From: Rick Mack [mailto:rick_mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 28-05-2007 7:37 PM
To: Cwalinski, Zygmunt
Subject: RE: [THIN] Vista printer driver

 

Hi Zygmunt,

 

The only possible reason for loading the Vista compatible drivers is if you're 
in the process of rolling out Vista. However since Vista won't install printer 
drivers for non-admins unless they're certified and in the local Driver Store, 
I'd love to know the logic behind the decision. Vista is much more "fussy" 
about installing any sort of drivers.

 

In terms of TS, a lot of Vista drivers are backwards compatible with XP/2003 so 
it really boils down to testing the drivers with Citrix' AddPrinter or 
StressPrinters utilities.If they pass they're probably okay. But I'd still ask 
if rolling out Vista drivers is actually going to achieve anything useful.

 

regards,

 

Rick

 

Ulrich Mack

 

Tel: +61 7 32431847
Fax: +61 7 32431992
Level 2, 30 Little Cribb Street, Milton
Brisbane, Queensland 4064
  
Commander Australia <http://www.commander.com/> 

 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Cwalinski, Zygmunt
Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2007 4:38 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Vista printer driver

Is anyone has experience with Microsoft printer drivers for Vista?

Our server team would like to update drivers on all Windows print servers. As 
we use session printers we have to be sure that the new printer drives will not 
crash our Citrix servers.

For example we have been using “Lexmark T620 PS3” without any problem. Now 
server guys would like to update the driver and replace it with “Lexmark T620 
PS (MS)” which is new Microsoft Vista compatible driver.

Should I expect any problem with new Microsoft printer driver or they are safe 
for Citrix?

Thanks for any advice

Zygmunt Cwalinski, System Analyst Network Services

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