OKI Printers in a Terminal Server environment
2. Installation of OKI printers
2.1. General information of printer drivers on Terminal Server
On “standard” NT4 network configuration containing NT4 Workstation and NT4 Servers, the administrator configures a print queue on the NT4 print server and adds the printer driver to this print quere. When the users connects to this print queue, the NT4 Workstation downloads the print driver from the print server and uses this downloaded printer driver locally. In a Terminal Server environment this has been a problem, see section 1.1.
In Service Pack 5 for Terminal Server, Microsoft added a feature that disables this functionallity of printer driver distribution. See article Q238070 on Microsoft TechNet for more information regarding this fix.
We strongly recommend the installation of Service Pack 5 (or newer) on Terminal Servers. The reason for this is the functionallity described that will provide the adminstrator a way to control wich printer drivers that is installed to the Terminal Server Environment.
2.2. Installation of OKI printers on Terminal Server
The installation of the printer server and print queue are not described in this document, the configuration of these components do not differ from a “standard” NT4 Workstation/NT4 Server installation.
As described in article Q238070 on Microsoft Technet, there are 2 ways to install printer drivers on a terminal server with SP5 installed:
Solution1:
Log on to the Terminal Server as an administrator, install the printer driver on a local port and delete the printer afterwards. This will copy the required files to the correct places on the Terminal Server and also update Registry to contain the newly added printer driver.
Solution 2:
Log on to the Terminal Server and disable the functionality of printer driver security as described in Q238070 and restart the server. Log on to the Terminal Server and connect to the qrint queue that is configured with the desired driver, the Terminal Server will download the driver and update the Registry for this new printer driver.
Open Registry again and set the values described in Q238070 back to its orginal values to enable the printer driver security and then reboot the server again.
We reccomend solution 1, this is the easiest and most secure way to add new printer drivers to a Terminal Server. This solution does not require changes in registry or reboots. The administrator are in control of wich drivers that are added to the server.
In solution 2, every user are able to connect to a print queue and download a driver, this is not good.
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