| Event Id | 1106 |
| Source | TermServDevices |
| Description | The printer could not be installed |
| Event Information | Windows 2000 Terminal Services supports the automatic redirection of printers that are configured to use local ports (such as LPT1, LPT2, or LPT3) on computers that have open client sessions through the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) 5 client. This printer redirection occurs at logon, and occurs by default.
However, if you are using third-party drivers or some Microsoft Windows 95/Microsoft Windows 98 drivers on the client, printer redirection does not work. When this occurs, this error message will be logged in the System event log on the server. CAUSE: When a client logs on, the Windows 2000-based server checks the name of the printer driver on the client and looks for the same printer driver name in the Windows 2000 Ntprint.inf file. If the name of the driver is not found, the error messages are logged and the printer is not redirected. RESOLUTION: Previous to Service Pack 2, you had to edit the Ntprint.inf file to fix this problem. This broke the digital signature on Ntprint.inf and caused the system to return a warning each time a user installed a new printer. The following steps are currently the recommended method of fixing this problem and require that the Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 or later be applied first. This allows you to specify a different .inf file in the registry for Windows to see if it is not able to locate the driver in Ntprint.inf.Open Regedt32.exe and locate the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd Add the following values: Name: PrinterMappingINFName Type: REG_SZ Data: Name of the .inf file to which you want to redirect lookups. Example: c:\winnt\inf\ntprintsubs.inf Name: PrinterMappingINFSection Type: REG_SZ Data: Name of the section in the .inf file to which you want to redirect lookups. Example: Printers |
| Reference Links | Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111, 1105, and 1106 |
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