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5zx555555
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Printers not allways connecting to Linked clones machines

Hello,
i have a problem using thinprint printers in linked clones desktops. Then users connects to their desktops sometimes they are not getting printers. I use usb and mostly network printers. If users go into control panel they can not see printers showing (even if they wait a lot of time). If users disconnect from virtual machine and then connect again to virtual machine they are getting these printers. That is annoying to play like that. Usualy everything is fine, but i do not want to see problems like that. I am using VMware View Administrator 5.1.2 I have windows XP and Windows 7 machines. I use vmware tools 9.0.1 and view agent 5.1.2 Maybe you have suggestions how to get rid of this problem?

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HendersonD
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Are you using location based printing?

We had a problem with location based printing and zero clients. When this was setup to key off of name of the client, printers would not always appear. This behaviour was not seen with repurposed laptops. We solved this by keying off of Mac address instead of name for the zero clients

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5zx555555
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No. We are NOT using location based printing.

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