Printer redirection routes printing jobs from the terminal server or Remote Desktop computer to a printer attached to your local computer (also called the client computer). There are two ways to provide access to local printers: automatic and manual printer redirection. When you add the printer redirection feature in Remote Desktop Connection to your OS design, a printer connected to a Windows Embedded Compact powered device can print output from a server that is running Remote Desktop Services. To manually redirect a client printer, contact your administrator and provide the name of your computer (or IP address for a Windows-based Terminal). The client must be connected to the remote computer during manual redirection. Setting default printer on a Remote Desktop / Terminal server based on IP and/or AD attributes. Posted on February 25, 2012 by Glenn. Using group policy with Item level targeting, you can set the default printer for a user based on a number of variables. 1 To use the default printer of the server as the default printer for all client sessions, enable the Do not set default client printer to be default printer in a session policy setting. When you add the printer redirection feature in Remote Desktop Connection to your OS design, a printer connected to a Windows Embedded Compact powered device can print output from a computer running Windows Server 2008 R2 that is running Terminal Services. Printer redirection on Windows Embedded Compact 7 does not support the Terminal Services EasyPrint functionality. To add the printer redirection feature to your OS design, select the SYSGEN_RDP_PRINTER variable in Platform Builder. For more information, see Remote Desktop Connection Catalog Items and Sysgen Variables. To configure your device for printer redirection. Connect a printer directly to the Compact 7 powered device (through the USB or parallel port), or connect a networked printer to the Windows Embedded Compact 7 powered device. On the device, click Start, and then click Remote Desktop Connection. When you use the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to a remote computer, the Default.rdp file is created on the client computer. This article discusses the connection settings that are stored in the Default.rdp file.
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