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CITRIX COMPATIBILITY FOR THE SAMSUNG MULTIXPRESS 6345N PRINTER
WHITE PAPER
Client Driver Compatibility
Description
Client Driver Compatibility in Citrix provides an
option you can use to prevent Auto-Create from
creating drivers on the server from the client
printers. This option allows you to prevent a
problematic driver from causing a fatal system error
on the server.
Test Methodology
The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer to a client using a USB cable and
they installed the printer driver on the client. They
made an ICA connection from the client to the
server. From the Presentation Console of the
server, the lab disabled the Auto-Create feature for
the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer driver by
using the Client Driver Compatibility feature.
Observation
When the lab connected the client to the server
using an ICA connection, the Client Driver
Compatibility feature prevented Auto-Create from
creating the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer
driver on the server. The Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer exhibited no issues during the
testing of this feature.
Using Session Printers
Description
Citrix Presentation Server defines policy-based
session printers as “printers attached locally to a
Server running Citrix Presentation Server” or as
“shared printers imported from a Network Print
Server.” When Citrix applies the Session Printer
Policy to a user, it creates the configured printers
for that user automatically for any log on session
with a Server farm, without requiring an installation
of the printer drivers or the presence of a printer on
the client system.
Test Methodology
The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer to a client using a USB cable or by
creating a TCP/IP port.
They enabled the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N
printer as a session printer for the client by using
the Session Printer Policy from the Presentation
console of the Server. The lab made an ICA
connection from the client to the server.
Observation
The Citrix client recognized the Samsung
MultiXpress 6345N printer as a Session Printer
during the ICA connection. The lab successfully
printed from the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N
Session Printer.
Replicating Printer Drivers
Description
Driver Replication is a Citrix Server feature that
allows printer drivers installed on one server to
replicate to another server in the same server farm.
This feature reduces the overhead caused by
installing the printer on each Server separately.
This feature saves time and it ensures that newly
installed drivers are available from all of the servers.
Replicating printer drivers in the server farm
ensures that the ICA client users can print to any of
the client and the network printers located on the
server farm.
Test Methodology
The lab joined two servers (Server1 and Server2) to
create a server farm. They installed the Samsung
MultiXpress 6345N printer driver on Server1 and
not on Server2. Then they replicated the driver
from Server1 to Server2. Finally, they established
an ICA connection to Server2 from the client.
Observation
The lab used Auto Create to create the client
printers on Server2 using the replicated Samsung
MultiXpress 6345N printer driver. They
successfully printed through the auto-created client
printer. The lab did not encounter any issues with
the Samsung MultiXpress 6345N printer on any of
the operating system platforms tested.
