[THIN] Re: XP network printer autocreate issues...
- From: "Pfeifer, Bruce A MSER:EX" <Bruce.A.Pfeifer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'MMunford@xxxxxxxxxx'" <MMunford@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:25:28 -0700
FR-2 has a feature to detect your local connected network printers and then
within your WTS session, remap them directly to the print server as opposed
to printing through the local client. So if your print server is on a high
bandwidth backbone along with your WTS servers it would dramatically improve
bandwidth utilization. In order for this function to work, you must be
using the latest ICA client and the ID of which you login to WTS, must have
permissions to print to that LAN printer.
This function appears to work well in our test lab, we have not put FR-2
into production yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Munford [mailto:MMunford@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 06:16 AM
To: 'thin-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] XP network printer autocreate issues...
I am in the process of finishing up a New Metaframe XP server
installation and have run into a strange printer issue...
The Server is configured with W2K-SP2, Metaframe XPa SP2-FR2 as a member
server in a W2k AD Domain. Within CMC, I have imported network printers
from the network Print Server.
When an ICA client logs into the server (via desktop or published app),
local non-network printers are autocreated within the session.
Local-network printers are not autocreated though. The imported printers
are available at this point. The problem that this causes is that if the
Client has a local network printer set as a default, and that printer is
not autocreated then they get another printer (one of the imported
printers) randomly selected as default, which is invariably not the
closest printer. The other issue is that the remote sites are going to
need to rely on the autocreation process to select their default
peer-shared printers in their locations.
Here's the kicker.... I created a local account on the Citrix server and
logged in using those credentials and all of the local and local-network
printers autocreated, but the imported printers did not show up!!!
Logging into the domain, the local-network printers do not autocreate,
but the imported printers do. If I run through the 'Add Printer' wizard,
I can browse the 'Client' network and see a listing of ALL of the client
printers including the problematic ones. If I complete the wizard by
selecting one of these printers, that printer works fine... At this
point, I thought it may have been a GPO issue, and disabled the
associated GPO for the Citrix server, but still no dice... No
local-network printers autocreated!!
I've checked permissions on the Spool folders on the Citrix server and
print server, they look good. I have checked and re-checked every
printer related setting I can think of. I've got Printer Management set
to create all local printers.. and I have most of these drivers (native
HP) installed on the Citrix server.
I'm about out of ideas.....
Michael Munford
mmunford@xxxxxxxxxx
Sr. Network Engineer
NetTek, LLC.
(757)321-4000
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