Printing for mobile users

Sometimes we have users moving between different workstations, floors in the building, or even branch offices, and we need to present them to the closest printers.

XenApp provides two features designed for mobile users:

• Smooth Roaming

• Proximity Printing

Smooth Roaming

This feature, also known as Workspace control, lets a user disconnect from one session, move to a different client machine, and reconnect to continue that same session. The printers assigned on the first client machine are replaced on the reconnection with printers appropriate for the second client machine.

Proximity printing

The proximity printing feature is based on the use of two Citrix policies: Session printer and Default printer. We can use the location of the client machine to assign the closer network printer.

Proximity printing requires that we filter the policy using a location setting like:

• Network's IP addresses, if they are related to user locations

• The name of the client machine, if the name relates...