Terminal Server Printing with OSX

We have a windows 2003 terminal server.
We have 10 remote powerbook users with OSX.
All the remote users have printers "without" postscript capabilities.
We want to remote access the terminal server, using RDP, and have the ability to print on the local users printers.
How can we achieve this. We can find no support for this anywhere on the web.
Need urgent assistance.
Thanks
shooshine

I'm not quite sure what you and your IT manager tried, so I'll try to restate myself.
If you don't have the ability to install printers "locally" on the server (many users are restricted to installing only "network" printers) then your IT manager should create a new local printer on the server and one of the default "ports" you can select is "Print to File". This is in the same dropdown list that includes LPT, USB, etc. As you continue through the printer configuration wizard you'll be asked to select a printer descirption. A "generic" Postscript description is fine for standard page sizes such as Letter, Legal, etc.
You would then (through RDC) open your document and print, selecting the "print to file" printer. You'll be asked where to save the .ps file. I suggest the Desktop so that it's easier to find.
Then you can open the "My Computer" icon where you'll see the C: drive, D: drive, etc., and (if you've configured your RDC client to share your Mac's local disk) a drive letter assigned to your Mac disk. Copy the .ps file to your Mac's disk, which will copy it to your Mac's hard drive.
The Preview application can open Postscript files and render them on-screen. Once you're this far, it's should be simplay a matter of printing to your locally attached printer or saving the file to a PDF or similar file format out of Preview.
Hope this helps! bill
1 GHz Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

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