[THIN] Re: 2003 terminal server printing to 2000 server
- From: "Rick Mack" <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:45:32 +1000
Hi Brian,
The UPD is for Citrix Clients, and won't help you're on a 2003 server printing
to a network print queue hosted on win2k. To be honest I haven't looked to see
if ntprint.inf is still used but I'd be surprised if it didn't. With the
exception of the "no kernel mode" printer driver policy and a bunch of new
unidrv printer drivers, nothing much has changed from win2k/winXP to 2003.
Anyway, back to your problem.
You've got a number of options.
The first is obvious, disable the policy that denies kernel mode printer
drivers.
However, if think (like I do) that that sounds like a stupid idea, then the
easiest thing to do is to download a "real" winxp/2003 driver for the LaserJet
5Si PCL 5 or equivalent from HP, and modify the name in the printers .inf file
to match the NT 4 printer driver name, which is of course 'HP LaserJet 5Si PCL
5e'. Then when you install it on your 2003 system, evrything will work
seamlessly.
LPD is driver indpendent, so if you print to an LPD queue hosted on another
server (unix, NT 4 or win2K) no checking occurs w.r.t. printer drivers. By
using TCP printing support on the target print server you make the printing
"chain" driver independent. Except of course it's a good idea if the printer at
the other ends bears at least some resemblance to the driver you're using on
2003 ;-).
regards,
Rick
Ulrich Mack
Volante Systems
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Lilley, Brian
Sent: Tue 9/11/2004 8:04 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] 2003 terminal server printing to 2000 server
ok, I'm being dumb here I'm sure...
I have a 2003 server with the 'install kernel mode drivers' disabled
(default). When I try to connect to an 'HP LaserJet 5Si PCL 5e' which is
hosted bya Windows 2000 server (using a nt4/win2k kernel mode driver), the
2003 server complains that "The Current print driver is not compatible with a
policy enabled on your computer that blocks Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000
kernel-mode drivers."... which is fair enough, thats exactly what I want it to
do, but...
Why doesn't 2003 server install an alternative 2003 HP LaserJet 5S1 PCL5e
driver?! Ok, well apart from the fact that it doesn't actually have on of
that time, I did trie adding all the laserjet 5xxx drivers from the 2003 cd...
and I tried to add a mapping with the 2000 driver description 'HP LaserJet 5Si
PCL 5e' into the ntprint.inf and WTSprint.inf but to no avail...
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that 2003 doesn't even bother reading the
wtsprint.inf file but I can remember where I read it, or how one turns it
on??!
Oh, and whilst I'm ranting, why doesn't the server (which has MPS3) installed
not just use the UPDII driver if it won't allow installation of a kernel mode?
or is that just for ica auto-created printers?
any direction appreciated?
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