Citrix Printing

[adamyoung]

Hi,

 

We use MetaFrame XP and are trying to set it up so that when users login in a certain room the appropriate printer is shown, tried using auto creation but cant seem to get it to work.

 

Any ideas?

[CyberNerd]

We solve this problem by nameing the clients per IT suite eg IT1-*

A login script then creates the correct printer for each client.

[adamyoung]

All our rooms are set out like this and we have a script that runs for the classroom fat clients (RMG1-PC01 = G1 Printer)

 

How can this be achieved with citrix?

[ChrisH]

You have to use a different variable to determine the citrix clients. I think its "clientname" rather than "computername" . Ric_ will fill you in he has it incorporated into his logon script.

[CyberNerd]

indeed, while

echo %computername%

gives the computername

echo %clientname%

gives the clientname

[Ric_]

at the start of your script, simply set the computername to be the same as the clientname. It works wonderfully and is a lot better than the Citrix method (which I have never made work).

[adamyoung]

Our machine name and citrix client names are the same, the current printer script maps by machine location, how can we get this to work in citrix?

[ChrisH]

What has been said above should work for you as the other two use that method. Are you sure you are querying "clientname" ?