Mapping Client Printer Drivers

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CITRIX COMPATIBILITY FOR THE SAMSUNG MULTIXPRESS 6345N PRINTER

Description

The Citrix Presentation Server Driver Mapping feature allows users to substitute specific Windows printer drivers for client printers. Each client provides information about the printers during logon, including the printer model name. During client printer auto-creation, the selected Windows- server printer driver names correspond to the printer model names provided by the client. The auto creation process then employs the identified, available printer drivers to construct redirected client print queues. In some cases, the printer model names provided by the client do not correspond directly to the printer driver names on the Windows-server. When this happens, auto creation will fail, unless the administrator designates a surrogate driver.

Administrators can also use the Citrix Presentation Server Driver Mapping feature to force families of compatible printers to use a single reliable driver.

Test Methodology

The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer to a client by using a USB cable. They also installed the driver for this printer on the server and on a client with a different name than used on the server. The lab used the Presentation console to map the client’s printer driver to the server’s printer driver. Then they made an ICA connection from the client to sever.

Observation

Citrix auto-created the client printers on the server during the ICA connection and mapped the client’s printer driver to the driver present on the server.

The lab successfully printed through this client auto-created printer using the mapped driver.

Verifying Client Driver Properties

Description

In Citrix, driver properties refer to the printer configuration settings you make to the client system.

You perform these settings locally on the client machine. These settings include orientation, paper size, pages per sheet etc. Citrix displays these printer driver properties in the settings for the auto- created client printer.

Test Methodology

The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer to the client by using a USB cable. They installed the printer driver on the server and on the client. Then they verified the printer driver properties of the auto-created printer against the printer driver properties on the client machine.

Observation

The lab confirmed that the printer driver settings of the auto-created client printers are the same as the settings on the client machine. The changes they made to the printer driver properties on the client machine were present on the auto-created client printers when they established an ICA connection with the server.

Using a Network Print Server

Description

Citrix Network Print Servers are servers to which you attach shared printers. You import these shared printers to the Citrix Presentation Server and assign them to users through policies.

Test Methodology

The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer to the Citrix Print Server using a USB connection or a TCP/IP connection. They verified the availability of shared printers. The lab then imported the shared printer to the server and configured it for a specific user through the session policy. That user then connected to the server by using an ICA connection.

Observations

The lab confirmed that the Print Server was available for printing in the tested session. They successfully printed to the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer by using that session.