Vista - Found Solution to having Canon Printers be compatible with Microsoft's Remote Desktop

Since more and more people are working at home, I had assumed that someone would know how to get a home printer to print documents from their work computers on their home printer when the printer driver was incompatible with the Remote Desktop. But alas I have gotten no answer. I finally found the answer at the following Web site:

Using Your Local Printers While Using A Remote Desktop Connection by Thomas Swaney Milestone Computer Solutions, LLC.

BS

This was not the magic solution in in my case. Here are the steps I used to
gain Canon RDP functionality.

Computer local to printer:
- Install drives, verify it works
- Share printer
- At command prompt, run: `net use lpt1: \\<local computer>\\<printer>`

Remote computer:
- Download Canon driver INF package to temporary directory, extract.
- Add Printer => Local printer -> TSCLIENT(LPT1 <local computer>)
- Select 'Have Disk' when it asks for driver. Navigate to the INF file in
the directory of Canon drivers you extracted
- Select appropriate printer
- Print test page

Worked for me!

"BARBLS" wrote:

Chris,

Is the printer on the local or home computer a usb? Mine is a canon inkjet ip4500 that uses the usb001 virtual port? What do you mean by install drives? Having only one computer at home I cannot share it. Using the lpt1 on your local seems unusual, if you have a new printer. I didn't know that printer companies made parallel port printers now. What does the commands
net use lpt1: \\<local computer>\\<printer>` mean?
BS

Net Use ----
Revectors the logical lpt1 port to the network printer que even when the
printer is a local printer on a USB port.
Variations on this have been around for some time, and were commonly used to
get a DOS aplication to work with a "winprint" printer.
The confusion factor is due to the old dos schemes and maintaining a level
of compatability.

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