[THIN] Re: Replicating Printer Drivers between Windows 2003 and Windows 2000

  • From: "cherie.watts Watts" <cherie.watts@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:15:53 +1000

Hi Rick

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

We'll have to adjust our plans.

Much appreciated.

Cheers

Cherie

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:04:50 +1000, Rick Mack <rick.mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Cherie,
> 
> The non-replication between O.S. platforms is by design. If you want to
> replicate printer drivers, you'll have to use something like rundll32
> printui.dll.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rick
> 
> Ulrich Mack
> Volante Systems
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of cherie.watts Watts
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2004 5:29 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Replicating Printer Drivers between Windows 2003 and
> Windows 2000
> 
> Hey List
> 
> We have just put a Windows 2003 Server in our UAT Citrix XP (FR3) farm
> for testing and I have noticed that you can't replicate printer
> drivers between Windows 2000 and Windows 2003.
> 
> I'm guessing that this is probably a feature and generally speaking
> replicating drivers between different OS platforms is bad thing.
> 
> But these printer drivers are all version 3 drivers, suitable for XP,
> 2000 and 2003.
> 
> So I was kinda hoping someone else has run into this and knows a
> fix/workaround....approached citrix etc...
> 
> Searched the Citrix website, but didn't find a lot.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Cherie Watts
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