Adding printer driver to terminal server

 · This server system is called a terminal server. For a detailed discussion of Terminal Services, see the Windows SDK documentation. If you are developing a printer minidriver or driver for Windows or later, you do not have to do anything special to support printers connected to terminal servers.  · We have a Windows terminal server that I built just over a week ago. When I try to add certain network printers I receive a 'Windows cannot connect to the printer. Unable to find a core driver package that is required by the printer driver package'. I have no trouble adding the same printers to any of our other terminal servers.  · 1. That client printer mapping in enabled. 2. You have to make sure that the driver that is installed on the local laptop ie. hp pcl6 is installed on the terminal server as well. If the TS does not have the same driver it will not map.

This server system is called a terminal server. For a detailed discussion of Terminal Services, see the Windows SDK documentation. If you are developing a printer minidriver or driver for Windows or later, you do not have to do anything special to support printers connected to terminal servers. The TS client provides the driver string name for the locally installed printers and if the server has matching drivers installed then the printers will be redirected. When we look at Printers on the Terminal Server, a redirected printer will have a name similar to what is shown below: As you can see, the naming convention follows this format. If she still needs to use terminal services to run applications, enable network sharing on her printer and install it as a network printer on the server. She should be able to print while using RDP. It's a little redundant I suppose, but it should work.

Increase the stability of servers, without installing printer drivers on any terminal server. Clients print directly to their local printers from the. Print Management can display and install printer drivers on computers running the Microsoft® Windows NT® Server 4 operating system, but it cannot display. Ensure that you have the Printers option selected in your Remote Desktop If the drivers haven't been installed on the computer you are connecting to.