Chapter 3 Using MetaFrame Presentation Server for Windows 61
Managing Printers for Clients
The Presentation Server Console provides access to all printer management
features. Below are some key points for managing printers in a farm:
• You can make printers that are already installed on client computers available in
ICA sessions. To do so, install printer drivers on a server and use the replication
feature in the management console to distribute the drivers to all servers in the
farm. MetaFrame Presentation Server autocreates these client printers in ICA
• You import network print servers into the server farm to make the shared
printers available to all users when they connect to servers in the farm.
• If some client printer drivers are not compatible with the server platforms in the
farm, use the Driver Compatibility feature to prevent incompatible printer
drivers from causing server errors.
• When users print from applications running on servers, the installed client
printers are displayed in Windows in the following form:
#clientname/printername
where clientname is the name of the client machine, and printername is the
name for the printing device installed on the client.
• When users print to the network printers in the server farm, they see the original
assigned network printer names in Windows dialog boxes.