Windows terminal services undamp; network printers

Yes, yes. I do list a lot of crappy products (go on, laugh; I don’t really care). Yesterday I had quite a struggle with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Terminal services (or more precisely with their way on how to deal with network printers). As most of you know, there a two (possibly three) different ways on how to do network printers. would be, to simply share a local connected printer by simply creating a share for the printer buy a smart printer with integrated print server a combination of 1. and 2. We luckily enough do have printers with integrated print servers, so that wouldn’t be a problem. But you get a problem if you’re trying to monitor the printer queue if you simply create a new TCP/IP connection from another target. You simply can’t tell who’s printing what. ...

November 4, 2007 · 2 min · 274 words · christian