If all your printers are networked, then Citrix/XenApp should be able to link up to them using the Citrix policies no problem. We use AppSense on our production farm at the minute to map printers, but as it is so costly, the new Xen farm will have it all done via Citrix. I wanted to do it via GPP (an "all under one roof" approach), but as I said, I had so many problems with it I elected to let Citrix handle the print side of things. IMHO, printing (particularly with remote clients and their own printers) is one of the areas where Citrix still beats off some of its competition.
Unfortunately none of my thin clients are Wyse (mainly Jack PCs, Extreme PCs and Igels) so I can't tell you if there are any issues I know of around that flavour of terminals On 7 April 2010 15:15, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay thank you James. We use XenApp as well and I can take a look. If I > recall our printers are ThinPrint ready. All of our printers (even those at > users desks) are IP and on the network so there is no "local' printing here > either. > > My client are not in the domain currently so GPP is out unless I change > that as well. > > >>> James Rankin <[email protected]> 4/7/2010 10:04 AM >>> > > I find that using Citrix to manage the printing has been a damn sight > better than using GPP. For some reason, particularly with 64-bit drivers, I > find the logon screens hanging when logging on and applying group policy > printer preferences. The event logs show lots of spurious "access denied" > errors. Citrix seems to work pretty well using their builtin policies, and > their universal drivers if absolutely necessary. > > Unfortunately we don't have any locally-attached printers, but we use > Excalibur for managing our thin client devices, which as I remember has some > policies available for mapping local printers (using ThinPrint, I think). > This may be able to achieve what you require. > > On 7 April 2010 14:54, Tom Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For those of you using thin clients, how do you address printing? We use >> Wyse thin clients for our training rooms. We now have a need to provide >> printing to local printers/copiers. Usually I give users access via GPO >> preferences. How does one do this for thin clients having limited disk space >> anyway? >> Tom Miller >> Engineer, Information Technology >> Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board >> 757-788-0528 >> >> Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is for >> the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and >> privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or >> distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please >> contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original >> message. >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > > > > > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including attachments, is > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential > and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or > distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message. > > > > > > -- "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
