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by ideafixer 1 view

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I am not sure how to approach setting up printer resources for our Citrix clients. When installing a printer, there is an option for a printer port on the client. I can install a local printer, choose a client port to print to, then print to a printer on my local network.

This works great however it seems to cause an issue when others attempt to share this printer with me. What is the best methode for sharing printers on Citrix?

We have our printers connected to a print server on our LAN. Should I somehow set up the print server on the Citrix server and share the printer that way?

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by rdunn

Are you running Citrix Desktops or just published apps? I had a site that the users were all using Desktops, and I had to install all the printers on the Citrix server in order for them to access them properly. But the main reason I had to do thatwas because we were crossing untrusted domains.

If your farm is on the same domain as your print server (or they are trusted), you can go into the Citrix Management Console under 'Printer Management' and right-click in the right-pane and 'import print server.'

I don't know what version of Citrix you are running, but we are using XP -

There is also an option of using Client-configured printers, but I'd have to get back to you on that one...

Let us know how it goes!
Rob

by ideafixer

It appears we are using metaframe XP. That's what the installation manager readme states anyway. In reguard to importing a print server, I went into the Citrix Managment Console and tried to import a print server.

Our Citrix server is not on the same LAN as our print server. The Citrix server is on an entirly different network. We are using terminal services to administer the server. Can I still use the import print server functionality?

I tried connecting to our server with the print servers installed and recieve an authentication failed error.

by rdunn

You'll probably need to verify the following first:

Can your Citrix Server ping/get to your print server? If so, it sounds like you are running on different domains, so you would have to set up a trust. If this is not an option, you can try what I did:

Make sure that your Citrix server can ping your printers. If so, configure your Citrix server to serve those printers, then when your users log in to Citrix, and wish to set up new printers, they can choose from those.

Did you try theclient-autoconfiguration option? That would allow them to use whatever default printer they have installed on their box (pending that they are not using CE or DOS clients) as their Citrix printer.

by rdunn

If you can't ping your printers, or create a trust with your domains, you may need to set up a route to allow traffic from those subnets to talk to each other - this could get a little messy before everything is said and done with!

by lmayeda

Your Citrix clients will not be able to see their printer unless you have the same printer driver on both the client PC as well as the Citrix server. What I have been doing is setup an LPTn port on the Citrix client as follows: using the command mode:
NET USE LPTn: \\printservername\printername /persistent:yes
Then on the client printer properties, I assign the printer to the LPTn port. Works well here.

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