how to map network printer to remote server

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I figured it out. I used the net use LPT1 \\servername\printershare
/persistent:yes command, therefore mapping it via an LPT port, then
installing the printer on the server using the LPT1 port on the client
PC - thanks

Bruce Sanderson Wrote:
> If you add the printer as a LOCAL printer on the server (on a Standard
> TCP/IP port - see
> http://tinyurl.com/5towa),
> any user that logs on locally or remotely (via RDC) will be able to use
> the
> printer - it will appear in the Printers and Faxes folder in the RDC
> session.
>
> If you add the printer as a Local printer on some other computer and
> share
> it, then add that shared printer is a NETWORK printer on the server,
> only
> the user that Added the printer on the server would be able to use it
> unless
> you add the printer Globally - see
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Ne [...] Users.htm.
>
> If you add the printer to the Windows XP workstations, either as a
> local or
> a network printer, the RDC client can be configured to redirect the
> workstation's printer to the RDC session. Use the Options button and
> select
> the Local Resources tab in the RDC dialog box. To get this to work,
> you
> have to have the driver for the printer also installed on the server
> (to
> which the users are connecting via RDC). I suggest avoid using this
> option
> if possible as, among other things, it can result in unnecessary
> network
> traffic.
>
> --
> Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
> http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders
>
> It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong
> question.
>
>
>
> "Alexi" Alexi.1ipgdn@pcbanter.net wrote in message
> news:Alexi.1ipgdn@pcbanter.net...-
>
> Alexi Wrote:-
> Here at my job, we have a UTAX network-ready printer that is
> connected
> with its own ip address on the network. When I connect to our remote
> server by "Remote Desktop", I want the programs on -that -server to
> be
> able to print to the UTAX. How do I do this? Thanks-
>
> Forgot to add: The server is server 2003, the clients are XP
> Professional.
>
>
> --
> Alexi-


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Alexi