[THIN] Re: auto creating printer with thin clients
- From: "Richard S. Hanzel" <rhanzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:37:54 -0400
Thanks for your response!!
Yes, I have successfully setup the printers assigned on clients using the
Client Printer Config Utility since that post.
However, for that to work, I need to publish that application to the user
and they need to manually connect to the printer. That is "too confusing"
for the users of the thin clients as (admittedly) many of them are not
computer savvy or even literate. I was hoping to make is seamless and
transparent so no matter who logs in there, it will always connect/default
to the local printer of the client; they click the print button, the report
comes out.
I spoke in depth with the manufacturer of the client and I'm getting the
feeling more and more that this isn't going to work that smoothly.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Angus Macdonald
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 5:10 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: auto creating printer with thin clients
Have you assigned printers to clients using the Client Printer Config
Utility (or its' equivalent in XP - we're still on MF1.8)? That should
create the printer for all users of the terminal but only works for locally
attached printers. For remote printers we use a small app that queries an
MSSQL database for network printer to client assignments and creates the
printers accordingly. You could probably do the same thing witha bit of
deft Kix scripting and the Microsoft con2prt utility.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard S. Hanzel [mailto:rhanzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 16 July 2003 19:01
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: auto creating printer with thin clients
Greetings:
We are using TeleVideo TeleCLIENTS with Citrix MetaFrame XPe FR2.
I am having some issues getting the auto creation of printers to work
with the thin clients. The application we're using does not offer a
printing option, so from the application users can't choose or connect to
the printer. When a users logs in, there appears to be no printer attached
to the thin client. If I publish the desktop, I can get them to work by
manually connecting the printer, but when another user logs on the same
client, it will not allow me to "connect" to the printer again unless I
publish the desktop (again) and connect manually (again). We do not want to
publish desktops for users. Secondly, if the user logs in to any other
client (thick or thin) is still defaults to the first thin clients printer,
which is not what we'd want if the user is in another location.
The ultimate plan is to have the client always attach to it's local
printer, regardless of who logs on, or even if multiple users are logged on
the same client.
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich Hanzel
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