Comments on: Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) Printer Not Working

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:43:46 +0000

Anyone know a solution for RDP session on windows 7 pro not showing local printers, however same session on a windows XP Pro machine will show the local printers? All settings are the exact same..

By: MattTech

MattTech — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:08:23 +0000

Awesome worked like a charm!

By: vngauss

vngauss — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:32:58 +0000

Thank you very much.
Your article helps me to resolve my problem.

By: Tjs-sfo

Tjs-sfo — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:57:45 +0000

Hi rosco : thanks for your response

With my xp machines that we log in with you need to hve most recent version of rdc and net frame loaded for printer redirection to work on server 2008. Problem with Mac is there’s no net frame

The printers initially were getting redirected with the Mac running most recent 2.1.1 rdc and then all of a suddenly it stopped and no matter what we do we can’t get them back

I tried installing drivers on server and using file : as the port and that didn’t help (per instructions on other boards)

Another strange thing server 2008 does is add the session name to the name of the printer and that increments each time you log in

For instance I was able to initially see the hp2600n that’s connected to our microsoft office network in San Fran when I logged into the server 2008 in Los Angeles via rdc on the Mac and each time I logged I’m the name of the printer had a number next to printer name that increased by one each time with some wording in front of it like remote session X or something like that.

If you have a Mac and tried logging into my server remotely chances are your printer would be redirected initially (assuming you’re using latest rdc 2.1.1 for Mac) but after a few log ins it will stop and won’t show up anymore.

Anyway I have clue why the Mac osX and most recent version of RDC can’t redirect the printers with server 2008 … Any help would be appreciated

By: Rosco

Rosco — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:10:13 +0000

Hi TJS-SFO…I presume when you say ‘MAC OX2′ that you mean ‘MAC OSX’ ?

Can you give me an example of a printer that is not redirecting?

I’ve just tries this very configuration on Mac OSX connecting to a Windows 2008 server with a Samsung ML-1670 laser printer even without installing the drivers on the Win 2008 server.

By: TJS-SFO

TJS-SFO — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:12:25 +0000

This solution did not work for me — nothing has worked for me — I am running MAC OX2 with RDC 2.1.1 trying to connect to remote server 1,000 miles away (Server 2008 R2) and none of my printers are re-directing – I’ve tried all the steps above, spent a week researching, no luck — installed drivers on the Server 2008, that didn’t work either. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thank you.

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By: orthohin

orthohin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:06:27 +0000

Hi,
we also had the same problem with using our local printer to print
to remote desktop sessions. We got Tsprint software which is very nice. It’s a universal printing driver. Zero configuration needed in your Server and workstation.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 21:53:57 +0000

Thank you for ending a frustrating morning with a well-explained solution!

By: Karl-Heinz Weidlinger

Karl-Heinz Weidlinger — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:53:44 +0000

vielen herzlichen Dank für die Lösung des Problemes.
Hat sofort alles bestens funktioniert.

Karl-Heinz

By: Rahul

Rahul — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 15:16:27 +0000

Thank you for simple explanation .

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:19:25 +0000

Thank you, very good article and solution.

By: Andres

Andres — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:07:24 +0000

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By: huevalisa

huevalisa — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:48:56 +0000

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By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:17:37 +0000

Wow… Needed this solution. It was perfectly laid out… I got my client up and running in less then 30 minutes doing everything remotely. Microsoft had a tech article about this, but didnt explain when ONE printer was missing… Fixed them all up thanks to this post which I will bookmark for later.

Thanks,
Jason

By: Numan

Numan — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:42:25 +0000

Thanks again

By: Numan

Numan — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:31:35 +0000

Great Proposed Solution!

Thanks a lot

By: Ethan Wilson

Ethan Wilson — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:59:13 +0000

Seriously, this was the best article I have ever read, this got everything working perfect!