The advantage I believe is if you set in your CMC to only auto-create local printers. That way when clients logon to their session it is not slowed by auto-creating network printers. The auto-created network printers are still in the network print folder for the users. Citrix is calling this auto-connected printers as if this is not confusing enough. For this to work, however you must import the print server and associate user groups to those printers. Cheers Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Matthew Shrewsbury MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 16:12:00 -0400 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: FR3 printing looks different? Thanks very much for the info as it has been very helpful. However I am still confused why some printers are client and some are network when they are all autocreated. I checked the setting you spoke about and in the CMC and it was turned off already. I turned it on for fun and it then made all autocreated printers client printers. I turned it back off and it went back to some network and some client. I can't see why some are network while others are client...they appear to be installed all the same. Ideally I'd like to keep with logon scripts to map my printers on the fat PCs. Then I'd like to autocreate the Citrix printers with the network printers not the client printers. However I don't see a way to force the network printer autocreated printers. 1) Is there a reason that some printers have to be created as client printers? 2) When my WI users connect the autocrated printers show up as client\domain-user\printer is this normal? Again thanks for everyone's help! Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA Network Administrator -----Original Message----- From: msemon@xxxxxxx [mailto:msemon@xxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 4:03 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: FR3 printing looks different? I think essentially what happens when you import the print server it moves that auto-created newtwork print from the client print folder to the network print folder so that client does not have to enumerate the printers on logon. One draw back on the imported print servers has been retaining the default printer. Scripts may be the only way to ensure retaining default printer. -Mike Original Message: ----------------- From: Matthew Shrewsbury MShrewsbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:23:53 -0400 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] FR3 printing looks different? I am in the process of setting up my new farm printers. I have some sites that don't have a print server that will use autocreated printers. I have other sites that won't use autocreated at all (logon script installed printers). In FR3 I am seeing two types of icons appear for autocreated printers. One icon looks like a standard network printer (but it was autocreated). The other type says "Client\domain.com-username\printer name". The network printer appears to print direct to the print server. The other seems to print to the client... How do I control this? They should all be in this case printing directly to the print server instead of to the client. I've heard people talk about "importing the print server" do I need to do this? Does anyone have a white paper on how FR3 printing works? Thanks for all the help, Matthew Shrewsbury, MCSE+Internet MCSE 2000 CCA -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ******************************************************** This Weeks Sponsor RTO Software Do you know which applications are abusing your CPU and memory? Would you like to learn? -- Free for a limited time! 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