"GTS" <x> wrote in message news:uX65h3CFHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Printing to an LPR printer from a Remote desktop guest is a little tricky.
>
> Firstly, install the printer driver as a non-plug and play local printer
> on the host (PC H).
>
> On the guest (PC O) this is what you need to do (I'm assuming the printer
> driver is already installed on this guest PC) :
> - In printer properties on the guest Share the printer and assign a share
> name. (This seems counter intuitive but is required to set up printer
> pooling.)
> - Run ipconfig and note the guest PC's IP address.
> NOTE - You should NOT be connected to RD at this point. Also, it
> would be best to assign this PC a static address instead and use that.
> - In a command prompt run >net use lpt3
> \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\printer-sharename /persistent:yes
> (This could have been lpt 1 or 2 alternatively.)
> - Check printer pooling and select lpt3 as well as the TCP/IP port (which
> I assume is presently selected) for the ports.
> --
>

Wow, finally some expert in both Remote Desktop and Printer Setup areas
replied me with detailed instruction.

Thank you so much GTS.

But I am a little bit horrified at these steps and they look hard.

Before I try these steps, may I ask will it be easier if I install the
printer driver PC O (the PC in my office, the one I am using most of time,
and the client for using RDP client to connect to the server at PC H (my
home PC)) to be network shared printer?

In fact, here is the situation at my office:

I have a LAN connection, and I've put up a wireless wouter(linksys), so now
there is a room-socket with incoming LAN connection, and I connect that
socket with the linksys wireless router, and now I have the wireless
capability and 4 Ethernet connections from that wireless router.

I normally use one laptop in my office and I typically use Wireless. There
are other PCs but they are slow and noisy and power-consuming so they are no
longer used here.

I've connected the printer to the wireless router using 1 of its 4 Ethernet
connections.

My laplop is communicating with the wireless router wirelessly.

When I installed the Brother's printer HL5250DN, it had several options:

1. Brother Peer-to-peer Network printing(printing directly to the printer
over the network)

2. Network shared printer(all jobs are sent to the queue on a central
server)

When I installed the driver on the PC O laptop, I have no idea about what's
the difference between the above two options, so I choose the first one:
peer-to-peer printing,

Then it has two options: LPR(recommended, set by node) and Netbios.

Again I have no idea so I choose the first one.

That's why it is LPR now. And it worked. I can successfully print from my PC
O locally to that printer.

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Now my question is: if I choose NetBios, or Network Shared printer, will
they make my life easier for making the RDP work with the printer?

Thanks a lot!