we have a few applications installed on a remote server with windows 2003 server (actually it is a Ubuntu Linux box with VmWare + Windows 2003 Server)
Users use these applications via RDP.
Printing is clumsy. Users have to print to the local PDFCreator virtual printer. After that, they can use their own local printers.
The coder will improve the printing ability of RDP users in 1 of 3 ways:
1. by keeping the current install and adding some product like
Thinprint, Net2Printer or Provision Networks Print-IT
2. by updating to Windows 2008 server and using the new Terminal Services Easy Print driver
3. any other method they can advice
please state the path you intend to follow and why
The task must be performed in a time and way to be agreed upon so not to disrupt the current work.
The aim here is to have users print on their printers as easily as they would print when using the applications locally.
We are not really interested in upgrading to ws2008: we see this upgrade as a nuisance.
However we will do it if this is the solution of the problem above.
Further info:
About 20 users (with different printers) access the RDP server via internet from remote sites.
Each user wants to print to his own printer. We don't know which printer each user has got (and we don't want to know it).
We don't like the idea of installing 1 billion printer drivers on the server.