Remote printing over http on Satellite DSL / Starband
We've got a client with a sales office in Tampa, FL and another in rural Georgia. The Georgia office is way out in the farmlands so the only high speed internet connection is satellite DSL via starband.
They can RDP into the Tampa server to do routine tasks, but then they needed to be able to print from Quickbooks on the remote server to the local printer. So, we immediately thought printing over http. The problem is that the starband euipqment won't allow us to bring services over a random high numbered port. THe low numbered ports (under 2048) are all reserved.
Does anyone know of a repeater service for printing?
I am thinking that this would work similarly to the repeater for ultra vnc (http://www.uvnc.com/addons/repeater.html).
They can RDP into the Tampa server to do routine tasks, but then they needed to be able to print from Quickbooks on the remote server to the local printer. So, we immediately thought printing over http. The problem is that the starband euipqment won't allow us to bring services over a random high numbered port. THe low numbered ports (under 2048) are all reserved.
Does anyone know of a repeater service for printing?
I am thinking that this would work similarly to the repeater for ultra vnc (http://www.uvnc.com/addons/repeater.html).
darron_chapman
When you RDP in, if you go to the Local Resources tab of the Remote Desktop Connection window (right before you connect) you can choose Printers under Local devices and resources and when you connect to the server via RDP, the local printer will show up on the server and you can print to that just like any other printer. You will have to install the printer driver on the server for this to work properly.
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Location A is logging into location B, and then wanting to print from the server that is at location B back to a printer at location A.
The router at location A is not configurable and does not allow us to configure a pinhole to connect to a server at location A, thus the problem.
Location A is logging into location B, and then wanting to print from the server that is at location B back to a printer at location A.
The router at location A is not configurable and does not allow us to configure a pinhole to connect to a server at location A, thus the problem.
The server at location B is the server that location A is remoting in to, correct? Have you tried my earlier suggestion. What happens is that when that box is selected, when you login to the server at location B, then the printer that is installed on the computer at location A is automatically installed on to the server at location B. I believe this is all done through the same port that remote desktop goes through, so there shouldn't be any configuring of any routers. If this doesn't work, then another option would be to install a PDF writer on the server at location B and print to PDF from QuickBooks then email that file back to an account that the user at location A has access to.
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tsmvp:
That sounds like it is THE answser I need. Can you provide a doc that will show me how to set this up?
That sounds like it is THE answser I need. Can you provide a doc that will show me how to set this up?
Here you go, all explained (applies to 2003 TS too).
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275495
Claudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/275495
Claudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
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Thanks Claudio, but I don't think that printing redirection isn't working, I think I don't know how to set it up in the first place. Can you send a link on how to use it (assuming that it is working, and I just don't know what I am doing?)
There is nothing that needs to be done. If the client has a common printer (set one up just for testing) like a LaserJet 5, once you connect to the TS you should see that printer with a Session number on its description (on the Printers, in the TS session).
Do you see that or not?
Claudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
Do you see that or not?
Claudio Rodrigues
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Terminal Services
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When I log into the server, and look at the printers and faxes, this is what I see:
http://gogetmyfiles.com/images/pf-server.png
I am not Gina, by the way.
Here is what I have listed in my own printers and faxes:
http://gogetmyfiles.com/images/pf-client.png.
Ergo, why don't I see any of my printers? Is it because they are not shared?
http://gogetmyfiles.com/images/pf-server.png
I am not Gina, by the way.
Here is what I have listed in my own printers and faxes:
http://gogetmyfiles.com/images/pf-client.png.
Ergo, why don't I see any of my printers? Is it because they are not shared?
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Well...it isn't because it wasn't shared. I just shared one of my printers (the OKI) and it didn't who up as a session based printer. Sad Christmas. :-(
How do I make it show up?
How do I make it show up?
Do you have the option in remote desktop connection under the Local Resources tab set to share your printers?
Open Remote Desktop Connect
Click Options >>
Click Local Resources tab
Check Printers
Open Remote Desktop Connect
Click Options >>
Click Local Resources tab
Check Printers
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Is it possible that the server is missing an update? That's why it is not showing my printers?
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You guys are awesome, and actually saved a woman's job. Had we not been able to get this working, she wouldn't have had a job anymore!