Printing using Virtual Channels through FirePass

Hi Oleg and Mike,

 

 

I should have posted an update here so sorry....

 

 

Our situation is that we now have remote printing working as we need but we've done that by giving up on Screwdrivers and we are using the Windows 2008R2 version of terminal server. That has a feature known as EasyPrint - where the Terminal server is able to have access to the remote client printers. This is discussed in a blog at

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/09/28/using-remote-desktop-easy-print-in-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx

 

which talks about Windows 7 but we have this working fine with XP too in the 2008R2 version (the standard Server 2008 also worked with an XP client but the printing was distorted, hence the move to R2).

 

 

We initially got this working through an app tunnel and I couldn't get it to work with the ActiveX connection but the error there was that I didn't have the "Redirect local resources (drives, printers, COM ports):" setting enabled in the RDP connection. Once that was enabled then it printed back through the virtual channel absolutely fine - so even with screwdrivers check to make sure that's enabled.

 

 

Also make sure that you have the latest version of the RDP client, the MSTSCAX.DLL. My Win XP version shows version 6.0.6001.18266 and is dated 10th June 2009.

 

 

I hope that may help if all you are trying to do is to get remote printing enabled.

 

 

Best wishes!

 

Kevin