[THIN] Re: no, no, help me....you printing gunu's

From: "Lilley, Brian" <brian.lilley@xxxxxxxx>
To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 16:25:23 -0000

Hi Andrew, desperate struggles to understand comments inline


> if I have 2003 terminal servers, and do not wish them to install v2 print
> drivers, how do I get the 2003 printer servers to print to printers attached
> to windows 2000 printer servers which have v2 drivers installed??

Just what ARE you up to today mr lilley? :)
** Ah, you know, the usual, shuffling windows around on my screen and looking
very very busy indeed.

I've had XP machines printing to NT print servers, which is kinda
along the lines you're getting at, I guess. When mapping the printers
to the XP machine, XP would come up saying no suitable driver found,
please choose, and giving me Windows' normal printer driver list.. Do
you not get this? If not, have you turned off the "dont install v2
drivers" policy?
** by default, the Windows 2003 server will not allow the auto-install of the
network print server's Version 2 print driver.. so the mapping of the printer
connection fails completely... like I said, I did try and map to V3 driver but
it falls over in a heap!  

> in fact, what exactly is the process, if one prints from a terminal server
to
> a network print server, why doesn't the print server just pass on the print
> job??

I'd check you're not doing a PCL6-> PCL5 or PS (or whatever!)
conversion along the way. You could also check the print processor i
guess, as I wouldnt be surprised if 2003 supported a higher EMF
version than 2000 did - although RAW is the default, so it ought to
just work :/

** hhhmmm... the test I did used the "HP LaserJet 5000 Series PCL 6"
drivername which was exactly the same description less a space character to
that of the drivername description for the version 2 driver, so I know they
are both PCL 6 drivers.... anyway, I mapped the version 2 driver name to the
version 3 driver in NTprint.inf.  So, should I be able to use a V3 driver at
the terminal server and have it pipe printstream through a version 2 driver on
the printserver... that's what I wonder?? 
 

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