Cirtix Connection Broker and Printing

[Merlot]

We are doing a POC on the new Citrix Connection Broker. We are using Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 with the Citrix Connection Broker and have no issues connecting to XP workstations on our ESX host. We are using an Wyse S10 Thin Client and an ICA connection.

Our issues now are printing and can it be done? We have a local USB printer connected to the Wsye client. Has anyone tried this and managed to get it working?

[sgrinker · Accepted solution]

Take a look at the following thread:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=577568&#577568

It can be done, as long as the printer is configurable within the OS of the given Thin Client. I've tested the Wyse S10 along with the Citrix Connection Broker, but really only toyed with Network Printers in that case. Again though, as long as the OS supports the printer itself, it should work fine. Typically we don't use locally connected printers in our environment though, so I've never been tempted to try and set this up. I might try it down the road just to know for sure myself.

For what it's worth we've tested Neoware, Wyse, and ChipPC Thin Clients thus far. Printer configuration varied slightly between all, but it was mainly do to the OS.