Hi,
I am trying to get windows server 2003 server - shared printers to show up through an active directory search.
Even though "List in the directory" is checked for all printers shared on the server, only a handful are showing up almost 12 hours after the shares were created.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
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Thanks for your advice but seeing the printers in AD is not the issue since I can see some of them.
In this case, some of the printers are showing up when doing an active directory search, others are not even though they are all shared and all have "List in the directory" checked on the windows 2003 server.
do you see all the printers if you do \\<InsertNameOfPrintServer
I would remove one of them from the directory list and remove sharing and then publish them again ..
# Right-click the printer you want to publish, and then click Sharing.
# On the Sharing tab, click Shared as and then type a name for the shared printer.
# Select the List in the Directory check box to publish the printer in Active Directory
I would also try to keep printer names short and if possible without spaces/special characters to see if this is a problem.
Would also try removing a printer then adding it with the full UNC path i.e
\\computer_name\printer_sh
then try to publish it
hope this is of some help
cheers,
colin
Hi,
have you used the Active Directory Sites and Services tool?
You need to tell ADSS about the subnets in your building (even if you use only one)
The tie the subnet to the site (change the name from default-first-site to your site name)
Then in the location field give your printers the following entries... /sitename/floor/printer
where sitename is the name of the building you change in ADSS.
http://www.microsoft.com/t
http://www.microsoft.com/t
You have to use the forward slashes in the location field of the printers.
Regards,
Pritesh
Business Accounts
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by: kamalgopiPosted on 2007-05-30 at 21:21:32ID: 19185500
check out these links...
http://support.microsoft.c
http://www.microsoft.com/t
Once more things are the printers configured to the server or to the user PC if to the user PC make sure the Printer and the PC is on for the thing to be displayed in the AD( this might be silly but sometimes we might tend to forget to check out these things.)
Hope this helps
Cheers:)
Kamal