Thursday, 25 April 2013

Print spooler must be running on server and client

Read something like this … “In order to print to a server based printer the print spooler must also be running on the client” … time to experiment … It is the same with a Remote Desktop session and a locally attached printer?

Did an experiment, I used Remote Desktop from a Window 7 machine to a Windows 7 VM. Remote Desktop is setup allow the remote session to use the local printer.

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Succeeded in printing from notepad on the remote machine to the redirected LaserJet on my local machine.

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Shut down the spooler on the remote session with

net stop spooler

and tried to print from notepad got this error and

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everything disappeared the from Select Printer except Add Printer

restarted using net start spooler

all the printer came back.

Remote/Shared printing … the spooler must be running on both machines not just the box the printer is plugged into.

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