Terminal Server Printing Solution
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We currently have a software package which works via a terminal server setup with users logging into the server with RDP connections to use the software. This is working very well for us, except for one thing - printing.
Currently users are able to print by manually installing the exact printer driver as the client on the machine & then using the terminal server virtual ports to spool the document to the printer on the client's side. Long story short - this environment will not be suitable when hosting for multiple companies on this software package. I have user software called AADServer & owncloud to sync documents automatically to the client once someone prints, but this creates a pdf file which then is put between possibly hundreds of other print jobs.
We are looking for a solution to print, sync to the client automatically & then open the completed document in a pdf reader/print preview window, where the user can then print as per usual.
Does anybody know of software like this or does anybody have any expert tips to give if we were to write something custom to do what we want to achieve?
We currently have a software package which works via a terminal server setup with users logging into the server with RDP connections to use the software. This is working very well for us, except for one thing - printing.
Currently users are able to print by manually installing the exact printer driver as the client on the machine & then using the terminal server virtual ports to spool the document to the printer on the client's side. Long story short - this environment will not be suitable when hosting for multiple companies on this software package. I have user software called AADServer & owncloud to sync documents automatically to the client once someone prints, but this creates a pdf file which then is put between possibly hundreds of other print jobs.
We are looking for a solution to print, sync to the client automatically & then open the completed document in a pdf reader/print preview window, where the user can then print as per usual.
Does anybody know of software like this or does anybody have any expert tips to give if we were to write something custom to do what we want to achieve?
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Hi Rhandels, thank you for the response.
You do have the right idea there & I will look into what ThinPrint provides. Have you had any experience using ThinPrint?
If I'm not mistaken, with ThinPrint, you will be able to print on the remote server & this will then print to your default printer automatically? Just one question - what if there are two or more printers attached to the client machine & not just the default?
You do have the right idea there & I will look into what ThinPrint provides. Have you had any experience using ThinPrint?
If I'm not mistaken, with ThinPrint, you will be able to print on the remote server & this will then print to your default printer automatically? Just one question - what if there are two or more printers attached to the client machine & not just the default?
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This could be done by using policies on the server. The only issue you would have with this is that you would have a multitude of printers (let's say there are 100 different ones) and offcourse the DLL hell of shared printer drivers.
There are third party tools that can fix this for you. One of them being ThinPrint. It has a default universal driver that can map almost any printer device. Is this something you are looking for?? This way the print job is rendered on the server and send to the locally attached printer.