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Printer in Terminal Services

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by daliberti

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I have users who were using terminal services on w2000 pcs. They have an HP1200 network printer that they were printing to. I upgraded the pcs to XP, now when they connect to terminal services, they no longer can see the HP1200. Any ideas why, and what can be done? The terminal server has the driver.

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by bg_27

My guess is that when they were using w2k the HP1200 was actually installed on the clients and not on the server, because remote desktop defaults to sharing printers when connecting, so when they connected they would see the HP1200 printer as a shared printer in the Terminal Server, but really the printer was not installed on the server but on the client machines.

by deltectechs

Did you check the XP firewall on the computer that is sharing the printer? Make sure that their client software is set to connect the printer when logging in.

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