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Local printer on terminal server

Hi,

I installed terminal server on windows 2000 server.

if I connect to it with one pc wich has a local printer it all works fine. I can print to my local printer becouse when I start the connection I choosed to use local printers.
On this pc the printer is a HP laserjet 4

When I connect with another pc wich also has a local printer on it does not work. I can not select my local printers.
The printer on this PC is a HP laserjet 40/50.

What could be a reason that this fails?


Neither of the printers are installed on the server.
the printers installed on the server are a Kyocera, a HP laserjet 2100 and a xerox color laser printer.


best regards
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And just to clarify, you don't do anything to create this 'pass through' printing as I called it....terminal services should just do this by default.  I use that term because we have a unix program on my terminal server that has a setting called 'allow windows pass through printing' that has to be disabled for the unix print command to work...not specific to your question, but I didn't want to mislead you thinking you needed to setup some other server-specific setting for windows printing to work.

Anyway, its late and I'm starting to ramble!

cheers,
aquilius
It fails because the HP Laserjet 4 drivers are already on Windows 2000 (the terminal server).

The term server doesn't use the clients Local Printer (the software and drivers according to M$) to use the local print device.
In order to print from the term server to a local printer on the term client, the printer drivers need to be installed on the terminal server.  
If you install the printer on the Term Server, when the Client logs in he/she will now have access to the printer.