Printers

[Michelle Yu]

Hi,

My users connected to a window 2003 terminal server from their XP. Do they
supporse to see all of the printers from the users who have a active TS
session?

Regards,

--
Michelle

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

From
http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_printing.htm#UserSeeAllPrinters

Q: My users can see all redirected printers. How can I make them
see only their own printers?

A: If your users can see each others redirected printers, they are
most likely members of the Administrator or Power Users user group.
Type "whoami /groups" in a Terminal Server session to see the group
membership list of a user.

If that's the case, there is no way to prevent them from seeing all
printers (and they will be able to do far more serious damage than
merely printing to the wrong printer!).
Make them normal users again, and if you made them Administrators
to solve a permission problem with an application, check this Q&A:

My application runs fine for Administrators, but not for normal
users
http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_applications.htm#FileRegMon

Some applications, for example Lotus Notes 5.5 and Microsoft Excel
2002, may display redirected printers from other sessions, for
which users have no permissions.
You can solve this with a free utility from ThinPrint:
MyPrinterView
http://www.thinprint.com/index.php?s=4321&lc=61

In Windows Server 2008, this is no longer an issue. The visibility
of redirected printers is limited to the session where they are
installed. For more information, see
Terminal Services Easy Print
http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/05/03/introducing-terminal-
services-easy-print-part-2.aspx
_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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<MichelleYu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 08 aug 2007 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi,
>
> My users connected to a window 2003 terminal server from their
> XP. Do they supporse to see all of the printers from the users
> who have a active TS session?
>
> Regards,

 

[Michelle Yu]

My users are just in the Remote Desktop users group.

--
Michelle


"Vera Noest [MVP]" wrote:

> From
> http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_printing.htm#UserSeeAllPrinters
>
> Q: My users can see all redirected printers. How can I make them
> see only their own printers?
>
> A: If your users can see each others redirected printers, they are
> most likely members of the Administrator or Power Users user group.
> Type "whoami /groups" in a Terminal Server session to see the group
> membership list of a user.
>
> If that's the case, there is no way to prevent them from seeing all
> printers (and they will be able to do far more serious damage than
> merely printing to the wrong printer!).
> Make them normal users again, and if you made them Administrators
> to solve a permission problem with an application, check this Q&A:
>
> My application runs fine for Administrators, but not for normal
> users
> http://ts.veranoest.net/ts_faq_applications.htm#FileRegMon
>
> Some applications, for example Lotus Notes 5.5 and Microsoft Excel
> 2002, may display redirected printers from other sessions, for
> which users have no permissions.
> You can solve this with a free utility from ThinPrint:
> MyPrinterView
> http://www.thinprint.com/index.php?s=4321&lc=61
>
> In Windows Server 2008, this is no longer an issue. The visibility
> of redirected printers is limited to the session where they are
> installed. For more information, see
> Terminal Services Easy Print
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ts/archive/2007/05/03/introducing-terminal-
> services-easy-print-part-2.aspx
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>
> =?Utf-8?B?TWljaGVsbGUgWXU=?=
> <MichelleYu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on 08 aug 2007 in
> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My users connected to a window 2003 terminal server from their
> > XP. Do they supporse to see all of the printers from the users
> > who have a active TS session?
> >
> > Regards,
>

 

[Vera Noest [MVP]]

What kind of printers are we talking about?
Redirected client (= session ) printers?
Or printers which you installed locally on the TS?

_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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=?Utf-8?B?TWljaGVsbGUgWXU=?= <MichelleYu@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote on 08 aug 2007 in microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> My users are just in the Remote Desktop users group.