Windows terminal services undamp; network printers

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:08:05 +0000

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.

Network-Printer on BAFM

Windows terminal services undamp; network printers