I am trying to find a solution to a problem we will be facing very soon with users, terminal servers, and printers. All the printers are network attached laser printers. There are a couple of issues I have to resolve. Here is a deatiled rundown of our 3 different types of workstations:
Typical fat client:
These users have thier own workstation. They log on to a windows domain and have a default printer. All is good!
Generic fat client:
These are “front counter” people. There are 3 different departments which will function this way. Every front counter worksation is signed on with the same generic user account called “sales” which is locked down hard and only allows them to do what is necessary to process sales. The users of these workstations move around very quickly throughout the day but each workstation stays logged in with the “sales” user account all day. If we didnt do it this way we would have hundreds of network logins each hour, and too much time would be taken waiting for profiles to load while customers wait. Each workstation needs to have a default printer defined based on the location.
Remote thin clients:
2 branch stores opperate this way… All the workstations at the remote branches are thin clients. There is a site to site VPN that connects them to a terminal server at the main branch. They all log in through the generic sales account. Their default printer needs to be based on the location of the thin client. I’m not sure how to make that happen…
It may also help to know that each location has a different subnet. For example: 192.168.0.x for the main branch, then 192.168.2.x and 192.168.3.x for the remote branches.
The only proposed solution I can come up with is to use a different username for the generic account in each location. Each location is in a differnt town or city, so instead of using the “sales” user account in every location, I could have front counter users login with cityname as thier username. I could set a default printer for the 2 profiles used at the remote branches.
Anyone here have any suggestions to help me make this work seamlessly?
Thanks
