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These are the steps to take to show local printers when connected via Remote Desktop:
1. Click on your Remote Desktop icon on your desktop or in your Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Communications menu.
2. The following screen should appear:
3. Click on Options and the following screen should appear:
4. Select the Local Resources tab as shown below and check the Printers option.
5. Click on the General tab and the following screen should appear and you will type in your password and click Connect.
6. After connecting you should be able to go to Printers and Faxes under Control Panel and see your printers as shown below:
This should be all there is to it!
If you are still having problems I would install the printer driver for the printer on your client computer on the remote computer and change the port to something that you really don't have on the remote computer for example: LPT2, LPT3 so that the printer never gets called but the driver is available for your remote connection. This should work or you can do the manual printer redirection as in the help article below from Windows help for Remote Desktop Connection.
- Redirected printers are available for use with applications running on the server. Redirected printers appear in the Printers and Faxes folder in Control Panel and are named in this format: Client Printer Name/Client Computer Name/Session Number.
- When you disconnect or log off from a session, the printer queue is deleted and incomplete or pending print jobs are lost.
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