To set up location-based printing, you configure the LBP Setting UI group policy setting. The group policy setting is a name translation table that maps printers to remote desktops. You use each row in the table to identify a specific printer and define a set of translation rules for that printer. The translation rules determine whether the printer is mapped to the remote desktop for a particular client system.
When a user connects to a remote desktop, VMware Horizon compares the client system to the translation rules associated with each printer in the table. If the client system meets all of the translation rules set for a printer, or if a printer has no associated translation rules, VMware Horizon maps the printer to the remote desktop during the user's session.
You can define translation rules based on the client system's IP address, name, and MAC address, and on the user's name and group. A group consists of multiple users and a user can belong to many groups. Depending on the group type, you can nest groups and grant access to resources.
You can specify one translation rule, or a combination of several translation rules, for a specific printer.
If you defined translation rules in a previous VMware Horizon release, and those rules are in an XML file, you can import the XML file into the LBP Setting UI group policy setting.
The information used to map the printer to the remote desktop is stored in the LBPSettingData registry entry on the remote desktop under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\PrintRedir.
Prerequisites
- Verify that the Microsoft MMC and the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in are available on your Active Directory server.
- Install the vmware-print-lbpsettingui.dll file on your Active Directory server. See Install the Location-Based Printing User Interface.
- Become familiar with the name translation table syntax. See Location-Based Printing Translation Table Syntax.
- Create a GPO for the location-based group policy setting and link it to the OU that contains your remote desktops. See Create GPOs for Horizon Group Policies for an example of how to create GPOs for Horizon group policies.
- Because print jobs are sent directly from the remote desktop to the printer, verify that the required printer drivers are installed on your remote desktops.