This document is designed to help with local printing while connected to a Server via Terminal Services. The items below assume that all printers and workstations are functioning properly, that all Local network permissions and firewalls are setup to allow Terminal Services, and that the Terminal Services session is setup to use local Printers.

1. Printers connected directly to a work station

Printers with direct connections to the workstation will usually be visible on the Server automatically. This is the case when the Printer Driver is already resident in the Servers operating System. If the Server does not have the appropriate driver, Digital West can manually install the Driver on the server. Note: the driver must be compatible with Windows 2003 Server edition. Once the driver is installed on the Server, it should then be visible by the workstation.

2. Networked printers

Networked printers cannot be used to print locally when connected to the Terminal Services Server, but there are a few noted exceptions.

• If the workstation is using the latest RDP client found in the Vista operating system, the Network printer appears and is functional.
• If the networked printer has a built-in Print Server, it may be setup as a shared printer over the Network (see #3 below) and may be used via Terminal Services printing.

3. Shared Printers

Workstations that are setup to use a Shared Printer via another workstation or server are able to see that Shared Printer via Terminal Services. The computer that is Sharing the printer must be on and available in order to print this way. A Network Printer may also be used to print via Terminal Services if another workstation is set to allow access to this Network printer via Sharing.

Notable article:  http://www.support.microsoft.com/kb/302361