Note: For you to print to your local printer from your remote desktop, ensure your organization/company allows or enables printer redirection on the target server (remote computer). This article is for the client-side only (your local computer). Thus, these instructions will only work if your remote computer (targeted computer) allows printer redirection. However, it doesn’t hurt to try these instructions out if you are unsure whether or not your remote computer (target computer) allows printer redirection.
Let’s suppose you have a local printer that you usually print to from your local computer, and you wanted to print to it while you are connecting to a remote computer via Windows remote desktop.
To accomplish this, you need to set up something called RDP printer redirection. To setup RDP printer redirection, do the following:
- Open Remote Desktop by typing “Remote Desktop” in the Windows Search bar.
2. When the Remote Desktop Connection application pops up, click “Show Options.”
3. Select the “Local Resources” tab and make sure to check the “Printers” box.
4. By checking the “Printers” box, it should let you print to your local printer from Remote Desktop. While you are at it, you could also set your remote desktop to access your local drive and thumb drive if you want. To do that, click the “More…” button to access your local thumb drive.
5. Next, click the “+” sign next to the “Drives” check box.
6. From here you could select the local drive(s) that you want to access. After that, click the “OK” button.
7. Next, select the General tab.
8. Enter your remote computer IP address and username/password to connect.
9. That’s it. If you are interested, we also have a post on how to setup multiple monitors for remote desktop.
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