Samsung 6345N Client Driver Compatibility, Using Session Printers, Replicating Printer Drivers

CITRIX COMPATIBILITY FOR THE SAMSUNG MULTIXPRESS 6345N PRINTER WHITE PAPER

Client Driver Compatibility

Description

Client Driver Compatibility in Citrix provides an option you can use to prevent Auto-Create from creating drivers on the server from the client printers. This option allows you to prevent a problematic driver from causing a fatal system error on the server.

Test Methodology

The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer to a client using a USB cable and they installed the printer driver on the client. They made an ICA connection from the client to the server. From the Presentation Console of the server, the lab disabled the Auto-Create feature for the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer driver by using the Client Driver Compatibility feature.

Observation

When the lab connected the client to the server using an ICA connection, the Client Driver Compatibility feature prevented Auto-Create from creating the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer driver on the server. The Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer exhibited no issues during the testing of this feature.

Using Session Printers

Description

Citrix Presentation Server defines policy-based session printers as “printers attached locally to a Server running Citrix Presentation Server” or as “shared printers imported from a Network Print Server.” When Citrix applies the Session Printer Policy to a user, it creates the configured printers for that user automatically for any log on session with a Server farm, without requiring an installation of the printer drivers or the presence of a printer on the client system.

Test Methodology

The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer to a client using a USB cable or by creating a TCP/IP port.

They enabled the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer as a session printer for the client by using the Session Printer Policy from the Presentation console of the Server. The lab made an ICA connection from the client to the server.

Observation

The Citrix client recognized the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer as a Session Printer during the ICA connection. The lab successfully printed from the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N Session Printer.

Replicating Printer Drivers

Description

Driver Replication is a Citrix Server feature that allows printer drivers installed on one server to replicate to another server in the same server farm. This feature reduces the overhead caused by installing the printer on each Server separately. This feature saves time and it ensures that newly installed drivers are available from all of the servers.

Replicating printer drivers in the server farm ensures that the ICA client users can print to any of the client and the network printers located on the server farm.

Test Methodology

The lab joined two servers (Server1 and Server2) to create a server farm. They installed the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer driver on Server1 and not on Server2. Then they replicated the driver from Server1 to Server2. Finally, they established an ICA connection to Server2 from the client.

Observation

The lab used Auto Create to create the client printers on Server2 using the replicated Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer driver. They successfully printed through the auto-created client printer. The lab did not encounter any issues with the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer on any of the operating system platforms tested.

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