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hp thin client t5000 and server 2003 terminal server client, printing

Asked by: hack-4-good

hello,

we have the request to sandbox the hp thin clients and how they connect to terminal server 2003.

our setup is like this:

branch office:
hp laserjet 3030 connected to an hp jetdirect, ip printing.
some hp thin clients (t5000's, some flavor of linux)
some hp deskpro workstations (333mhz pieces of junk, windows 98)

server locations:
8 terminal servers with thier own outside ip addresses
all run server 2003 and have about 100 licenses each.

what i did so far:
the deskpro's are out of this example, they all work fine and print fine.

the t5000's, i can get them to connect to the terminal servers just fine...
i can print from the t5000 to the ip printer just fine, but only before i connect to the server.

i need to be able to print from the remote session, to this ip printer that is local to the t5000.

i tried to carve a hole for port 9100  in the router and nat that to the ip of the jetdirect.  however, there's some external issue i have to track down, when i portscan that branch office's outside ip address, i dont see anything open, not even remote access to their router (port 88) which i know is open.  i'm taking that up with their isp.  

however, if i can make the printer 'come with' the t5000 thin client into the connected remote desktop, that would be fine.  if not, i can create the printer on the remote server and have it come back thru the internet, once i figure out their inbound route issue.

bottom line question:  how do i have a local ip printer appear in the remote session of a thin client?

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Answers

 

by: ssammonsPosted on 2006-01-04 at 06:53:49ID: 15608027

I know on the RDP client windows provides there is an option when you click the LOCAL RESOURCES tab to allow local printers. You said the t5000 thin client is using a flavor of linux, so I don't know if you can use that same option on the server side for clients connecting.

I hope that helps lead in the right direction. You will need to have the driver on the server for the local printer though.

 

by: hack-4-goodPosted on 2006-01-04 at 07:27:14ID: 15608294

ssammons, thanks for the comment...

the printer works fine from the other 'windows' remote users, the driver on the server isnt an issue.

on the hp thin client with the linux version of the microsoft remote desktop client, we have a similar selection, but it only deals with sounds.  there is no 'local drives' choice because, well, there is no local drive at all.  no printer choice there either.  

forcing the bringing of printers at the server level doesnt do anything because microsoft's server isnt ready to talk with the linux client...

it's looking like i'm going to have to feed it back over the internet back into the printer bypassing the remote session.. but i really want to know how the rest of the world does it...

 

by: ssammonsPosted on 2006-01-04 at 08:04:15ID: 15608619

hack-4-good,
Well I have yet to impliment TS where I work because of network issues that seem to prevent good multi-media application support like Media Player...but reading up on things..

The RDP client does nothing more then send screen, keyboard, and mouse information. If you have local drives it just loads the information, all data is still transferred from the server, so having the printers pre-installed on the server and just letting it print direct to the without using the RDP protocol to have it issued from the TC is going to us the same data throughput, just a different port and node.

I could be 100% wrong there, but that is how I take everything I have read so far (and no it was nothing detailed on the protocol so I will not state this as any type of fact.)

Now I am not sure about you local IP printer, perhaps if you have an extra IP you can use a router or firewall with NAT to give it a publically accessible external IP...hopefully you have a firewall that will also be restrictive and just allow a connection from a certain IP...which I assume to be true over a VPN or such considering you have that branch office already :P.

Well I hope I make sense, and don't sound like a bumbling moron! Hope I am of some help.

 

by: hack-4-goodPosted on 2006-01-04 at 08:21:18ID: 15608769

thanks again... i think i'm going to end up re routing these print jobs directly back to the branch's public ip address and have it nat to the printer inside.  i can limit it to the remote server's ip address in an access list no prob.

i'll leave this question hang for a day and see if someone can make it work thru the actual session, if not, i'll pass you the points..

 

by: ssammonsPosted on 2006-01-04 at 08:35:27ID: 15608939

Well I found this, not that it will be of much help:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/rdesktop.1.html

You can execute a -r flag to make it re-direct a printer.

-r comport:<comport>=<device>,...
    Redirects serial devices on your client to the server. Note that if you need to change any settings on the serial device(s), do so with an appropriate tool before starting rdesktop. In most OSes you would use stty. Bidirectional/Read support requires Windows XP or newer. In Windows 2000 it will create a port, but it's not seamless, most shell programs will not work with it.
-r disk:<sharename>=<path>,...
    Redirects a path to the share \\tsclient\<sharename> on the server (requires Windows XP or newer). The share name is limited to 8 characters.
-r lptport:<lptport>=<device>,...
    Redirects parallel devices on your client to the server. Bidirectional/Read support requires Windows XP or newer. In Windows 2000 it will create a port, but it's not seamless, most shell programs will not work with it.
-r printer:<printername>[=<driver>],...
    Redirects a printer queue on the client to the server. The <printername> is the name of the queue in your local system. <driver> defaults to a simple PS-driver unless you specify one. Keep in mind that you need a 100% match in the server environment, or the driver will fail. The first printer on the command line will be set as your default printer.
-r sound:[local|off|remote]
    Redirects sound generated on the server to the client. "remote" only has any effect when you connect to the console with the -0 option. (Requires Windows XP or newer).

The actual client can be found  at http://www.rdesktop.org/

I am pretty sure the default client has command line switches as well...a quick google didn't find them, but I did find them before.

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