4.5

Setting Up Location-Based Printing
The location-based printing feature maps printers that are physically near client systems to View desktops,
enabling users to print to their local and network printers from their View desktops.
You set up location-based printing by configuring the Active Directory group policy setting AutoConnect
Location-based Printing for VMware View,
which is located in the Microsoft Group Policy Object Editor in the
Software Settings folder under Computer Configuration.
NOTE AutoConnect Location-based Printing for VMware View is a computer-specific policy. Computer-
specific policies apply to all View desktops, regardless of who connects to the desktop.
AutoConnect Location-based Printing for VMware View is implemented a name translation table. 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 View desktop for a particular client system.
When a user connects to a View desktop, View 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, View maps the printer to the View 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. You can specify one translation rule, or a combination of several translation rules, for
a specific printer.
The information used to map the printer to the View desktop is stored in a registry entry on the View desktop in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\thinprint\tpautoconnect.
1 Register the Location-Based Printing Group Policy DLL File on page 153
Before you can configure the group policy setting for location-based printing, you must register the DLL
file TPVMGPoACmap.dll.
2 Configure the Location-Based Printing Group Policy on page 154
To set up location-based printing, you configure the AutoConnect Location-based Printing for VMware
View group policy setting. The group policy setting is a name translation table that maps printers to View
desktops.
Register the Location-Based Printing Group Policy DLL File
Before you can configure the group policy setting for location-based printing, you must register the DLL file
TPVMGPoACmap.dll.
View provides 32-bit and 64-bit versions of TPVMGPoACmap.dll in the directory
install_directory \VMware
\VMware View\Server\Extras\GroupPolicyFiles\ThinPrint on your View Connection Server host.
Procedure
1 Copy the appropriate version of TPVMGPoACmap.dll to your Active Directory server or to the domain
computer that you use to configure group policies.
2 Use the regsvr32 utility to register the TPVMGPoACmap.dll file.
For example: regsvr32 "C:\TPVMGPoACmap.dll"
What to do next
Configure the group policy setting for location-based printing.
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