Question : Problem with Terminal Services holding users default printers

I have been searching and struggling through this for the last week.
My office currently had 2 Terminal Servers that users connect to in order to run our ERP solution.  The problem is, when a user logs in their default printer seems to jump around.  They can set their default printer, however when they log off and then back on the default has changed.  I am also getting reports that the default is changing even if they don't log off, however I haven't verified this yet.

The printers are set up a couple of ways.  We have some that are mapped in locally from the users settings on the RDP client.  We have some that are setup on the actual terminal servers themselves.  It doesn't seem to matter which type the user has set as default, it seems to always change.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer : Problem with Terminal Services holding users default printers

ebjers is correct.  However if your users use some of the same login names, then the last one that logs in will have the default printer-and that printer will go to both users.  And I have seen TS do some strange things when a 2nd user logs in with the same credentials, even giving a default printer that isn't a default on either client to both.

If the client has no client printers there will not be a default printer unless the TS itself has a printer designated as a default.

Another issue you could run into is if users login to TS from different workstations but click the X instead of logging out.  Then they could log back into their old session depending on how the group policy is set up and not be able to print to the printers they could previously.
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