Question : Printing through RDP

I'm trying to print through a Remote desktop connection session. I'm remoting to a machine at work from home. I want the print jobs to come out to my printer at home. I have an HP deskjet 7310 network printer. I cannot see the printer in the host computer. I've installed the driver on the host pc, log off then log on and still don't see it. my printer here at home is pointing to a standard tcpip port. When I change it to lpt port it sees it....but it doesn't print out right. My question is why can't the host printer see my local network printers. Shouldn't it see all my local printers if the host has all the drivers......why should it matter what ports i'm printing through. I thought RDP redirects the print jobs back to my local printer.

Answer : Printing through RDP

Hi,

Have a read of this -> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302361

By default, printers that don't start with COM, LPT or USB don't get published within Terminal Services / Remote Desktop (i.e. your printer). The article shows you how to correct via a simple registry key.

Hope this helps, cheers!

If you still can't see your printer/s via Remote Desktop, check out the event viewer, it will generall publish errors / warnings during logon if it cannot add a printer for a particular reason.

Good luck :D