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CITRIX COMPATIBILITY FOR THE SAMSUNG MULTIXPRESS 6345N PRINTER
Mapping Client Printer Drivers
Description
The Citrix Presentation Server Driver Mapping
feature allows users to substitute specific Windows
printer drivers for client printers. Each client
provides information about the printers during
logon, including the printer model name. During
client printer auto-creation, the selected Windows-
server printer driver names correspond to the
printer model names provided by the client. The
auto creation process then employs the identified,
available printer drivers to construct redirected
client print queues. In some cases, the printer
model names provided by the client do not
correspond directly to the printer driver names on
the Windows-server. When this happens, auto
creation will fail, unless the administrator
designates a surrogate driver.
Administrators can also use the Citrix Presentation
Server Driver Mapping feature to force families of
compatible printers to use a single reliable driver.
Test Methodology
The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer to a client by using a USB cable.
They also installed the driver for this printer on the
server and on a client with a different name than
used on the server. The lab used the Presentation
console to map the client’s printer driver to the
server’s printer driver. Then they made an ICA
connection from the client to sever.
Observation
Citrix auto-created the client printers on the server
during the ICA connection and mapped the client’s
printer driver to the driver present on the server.
The lab successfully printed through this client
auto-created printer using the mapped driver.
Verifying Client Driver Properties
Description
In Citrix, driver properties refer to the printer
configuration settings you make to the client
system.
You perform these settings locally on the client
machine. These settings include orientation, paper
size, pages per sheet etc. Citrix displays these
printer driver properties in the settings for the auto-
created client printer.
Test Methodology
The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer to the client by using a USB cable.
They installed the printer driver on the server and
on the client. Then they verified the printer driver
properties of the auto-created printer against the
printer driver properties on the client machine.
Observation
The lab confirmed that the printer driver settings of
the auto-created client printers are the same as the
settings on the client machine. The changes they
made to the printer driver properties on the client
machine were present on the auto-created client
printers when they established an ICA connection
with the server.
Using a Network Print Server
Description
Citrix Network Print Servers are servers to which
you attach shared printers. You import these
shared printers to the Citrix Presentation Server
and assign them to users through policies.
Test Methodology
The lab connected the Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer to the Citrix Print Server using a USB
connection or a TCP/IP connection. They verified
the availability of shared printers. The lab then
imported the shared printer to the server and
configured it for a specific user through the session
policy. That user then connected to the server by
using an ICA connection.
Observations
The lab confirmed that the Print Server was
available for printing in the tested session. They
successfully printed to the Samsung MultiXpress
6345N printer by using that session.
