Local Printer Added to Terminal Services Session Using the RDP Client

ID: Q238841

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SUMMARY

In Windows 2000, a local printer is automatically added to a Terminal Services client for a Terminal Session.

MORE INFORMATION

This only works for printers that are locally attached to the clients parallel or serial port.

To see this behavior, perform the following steps:

Connect a printer to Lpt1 on a computer running Windows NT Workstation, and then install the print driver locally. Configure this printer as the default printer.

Install the Windows 2000 Terminal Client on the computer running Windows NT Workstation.

Using Terminal Services, connect to a computer running Windows 2000 Server with Terminal Services.

Check the printers folder in the terminal session and note that the default local printer is automatically added as the default printer in the terminal session.

Printers are automatically added for the following operating systems:

Windows 9x
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server
Windows 2000 Professional, Server, Advanced Server and Datacenter
Windows Based Terminals (WBT) that conform to the WBT 2.0 specification. (Contact your WBT OEM for availability.)

This entire creation process uses the Windows 2000 Plug and Play architecture. When Windows 2000 adds the printer, it automatically installs the driver required for the printer. (As long as the printer is a model for which a driver is already installed or supported.)

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

All printers that are automatically created are registered in the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{28d78fad-5a12-11d1-ae5b-0000f803a8c2}\##?#Root#RDPDR#0000#{28d78fad-5a12-11d1-ae5b-0000f803a8c2}

NOTE: The above key is one path, but has been wrapped for readability.

Additional query words: win2000hotperf

Keywords : kbprint
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo