Hi Jerry,
I believe this is normal behavior for local mode VM, due to local mode security policy. As I remember you even cannot use CDROM on local mode VM.
Thanks
Faisal
Update:
Please look at this documet, goto page 25. You will find the answer just before the head line "Printing from View Desktop"
http://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/view-51-architecture-planning.pdf
Thanks
Message was edited by: FaisalRahman