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Best method to add network printers using GPO
Whats the best method to add printers for users using GPO? Also is there any way to prevent thjem from adding network printers but allow them to add local printers?
Server is Win 2003 RC2, clients ...
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Renaming deployed printers
Is it possible to rename printers that have been deployed through a 2008R2 server without disruption in service? The printers are not listed or pushed out through GPO, just deployed through the print ...
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Very slow printing from print server
Print server is a VM on Xen The VM is Windows 2003 32bit. During the issue the VM is not being taxed in anyway, cpu, memory, hd read/write, and network speed is all good.
The problem that I see is ...
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What print management tools are available for a large organization? [closed]
Our organization uses the Pharos print management software to allow users to manage jobs to different output devices, as well as tracking usage for the users and allowing / denying access to different ...
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How do you add or remove printers from the Select a Printer list?
Within a Windows domain that has a mix of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2 print servers, how do you add or remove printers from the list of printers that Windows 7 clients retrieve at the Select a ...
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Printer Deployment Issue
I've got some network printers shared on a 2003 server. I set them as deployed in a GPO. All my XP machines get the printer. My windows 7 machines show success in applying the policy, but the printers ...
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Setting Default Printers in Login Script?
I've got a login script setup, that removes all old printers, and then adds the current set of network printers.
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Set WSHPrinters = WSHNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections
For LOOP_COUNTER = 0 To ...
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Erase Sharp Printer Hard Disk?
I have a number of Sharp MX-M550 printers that are at the end of their useful life. Each device has a hard disk.
Can anyone advice as to how I go about erasing the drives either whilst they're in ...
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Printer Naming Conventions
I am working on building a new AD print server and have been pondering the idea of renaming the printers. Right now we have a mix of names that varies between a mashup of some that reference ...
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Why I can't se my network printer inside an app accessed via Citrix web client?
I'm using citrix web client to access some apps and from them I can't print to my network printer.
Citrix redirects my local usb atached printer just fine, but it doesn't redirect my network printer.
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Canon IR Advanced C2020 Won't Print From a Mac
I’m having an issue with a Canon IR Advanced C2020 on the Mac side. We have the printer connected to the network and printing from Windows machines using the UFRII driver but I can’t seem to get any ...
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How can I get the printer shares on a print server using Powershell?
I'm trying to use Powershell to get the print shares from a remote print server.
I'm using:
Get-WmiObject Win32_Share -computerName "print-server"
I'm getting an "access denied" error:
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DNSHost.exe trojan found, now after fix, no one can print
What started today as an inability to get to the internet (but people could get in just fine), morphed to we realized that the DNS Server wasn't working, then we figured out that we had a trojan ...
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Removing connections to network printers that no longer exist
I'm trying to delete some network printer connections from a Windows Server 2003 (SP2) machine because the printer shares no longer exist. Windows shows the printers' status as "Printer not found on ...
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Network print server problems - HP JetDirect 175x and Windows XP Print server
I'm having a massive problem with my network printers - one in particular.
A little background:
Originally, all of our printers were added on our domain controller, and shared.
There were around 20 ...
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Setting paper sizes on shared printers windows 2012
I have set up two logical printers in 2012 printing to the same physical device.
I have set one logical printer to print to A3 and the other to print to A4. I have then connected to these printers ...
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Point'n'Print setup in Windows 7 x64 on Samba server
I've done a Point'n'Click setup on Samba/CUPS for Windows 7 Clients.
The following things are done:
CUPS
Activated Raw printing support by dpkg-reconfigure cups
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Added to the smb.conf the ...
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Easiest way to let random people connect to a public printer?
We have a resource area for guests to come to research. We also offer free printing.
This works fine from our desktops where the printer drivers are already installed. But when people bring their ...
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Redirect LTP1 to default printer over RDP
Some older apps force the use of LPT1 for printing. In a terminal server environment, I am familiar with printer redirection over RDP using this syntax:
net use lpt1 \\tsclient\prn1
This would be ...
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Connecting to network printer(s) using net use
I was asked to add pinters to all users on a terminal server. There is a VPN connection between the terminal server and the network where the printer is installed.
I do not have much experience with ...
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Can't access printer shared on a Domain Controller - Logon unsuccessful
I recently setup a Windows Server 2003 R2 machine to be a domain controller, kind of to experiment with that whole concept. Originally, it was sharing a printer attached to it to my home's workgroup, ...
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Printer Preference Defaults - Duplex Printing
How are default printer preferences, such as the duplex printing option, determined when printing across a network?
I printed a multi-page pdf to a locally installed printer from one server on the ...
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Konica Minolta Printer MIBs?
I'm looking for a MIB for a Konica Minolta BizHub 600. The product's support page doesn't appear to have the MIBs in any section. Various combinations of search terms produce mostly marketing pages ...
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Sharing EPSON FX-890 printer on Windows 2008 R2 to 32-bit clients
I'm migrating our print server from Windows 2003 to 2008 R2 (64 bit).
I have installed our network printers sucessfully but I'm having problems when sharing Epson impact printers.
The problem is ...
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Setup Printers Based Upon AD Group Membership
I am trying to create a login script for Active Directory that will be used for installing printers on client computers. I have a basic script that we are using now, listed below, that installs a ...
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windows 2008 server spooler problem
i have one windows 2008 server & windows xp clients.
one HP2600n is connected to network with network cable, and installed in server and shared.
also same printer is shared on xp cleints.
the ...
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Finding printer names, driver and ip addresses off backup image
I just installed a fresh copy of server 2003 and I totally forgot to write down all the ip addresses and printer names to re add them to the new server. I was in a rush due to getting nail with that ...
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Shared printer status “offline” but still prints
We have two Sharp MX-2310U network printers in our office building. They're both in the same subnet, and both set up in the print services console on our file & print box (Server 2008) with the ...
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Reset password on a LANIER 5618 laser printer
I need to reset/recover the administrator password on a LANIER 5618 laser printer. It was probably changed by the former sysadmin and there's no documentation left. Can anybody help me with some ...
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Why are network printers not available in the Add Printer Wizard…when run over a network?
From a Windows 2003 server machine I browsed the network to an XP client (\computername in Explorer) then double-clicked Printers and Faxes and then Add Printer. In the wizard, normally the second ...
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Windows networked printers freeze on PDF
I have two HP LaserJet printers on a Windows Server 2003-based network. Both printers are managed by a print server and shared from there to multiple users in the domain, most of whom use Windows XP. ...
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Problem with Windows Service and network printers
I have a Windows Service application that every now and then should print some documents. As far as I know, to print those documents, my service must be run with a user account other than Local ...
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Lexmark Printer No Wired Connection?
Trying to set up a Lexmark C543dn laser printer onto our office wired network.
Our office is around 60 computers, all connected to a server, each PC has a static IP. (Some IP's aren't allowed full ...
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Problems using local printer via RDP on windows 2003 sever
The client is windows 7 machine, it have local printer attached. Necessary check-boxes are checked (at "share local resources" in remote desktop connection configuration windows), but the printer not ...
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Windows 7 Printer Installation Loop
I've installed a new printer in one my client server running Windows Server 2008 R2
configured the logon script to run at every login making it able to connect to every user whoever logs in. Recently ...
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renaming printers on network
I want to rename all the printers within a network but if I rename it on the server the clients don't see it, if I rename it on the client others don't see it. Is there anyway to manage this with ...
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How to access a printer via VPN (site-to-site VPN with router dialling a server)
I'm trying to set up a VPN between two networks, one home and one office (A and B). Their subnets are (A) 192.168.1.0 and (B) 192.168.0.0
The two networks have identical ADSL routers. Unfortunately ...
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Print to local home network based printer from cloud server? [closed]
I'd like to be able to send a print command to a local network label printer from a web application running on a cloud server.
I've already asked how to do this via code on Stackoverflow here, but I ...
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HP LaserJet 4250 Printer Networking Problems
We've been trying to assign a static IP address to an HP LaserJet 4250 Printer. When we click on the networking tab it asks for a username and password, however it says the admin user is Unauthorized. ...
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Printer in a AD double side print problem
ive got a printer in my Active directory but its standard set to double sided printing but the problem is the printer doesnt support that so you have to switch it manualy
Ive found the setting for ...
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My notebook goes offline automatically after some time
I have about 3 computers and 1 windows 2003 server in office and 1 network printer (HP LJ 2840).
My network printer is installed on the server.
I an sharing this printer on all clients with windows ...
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the job exceeded end severity (ENDSEV job attribute)
one of our clients recently purchased a new printer. This printer is a slightly different model from what it is replacing, however is only an upgraded model (T640 to T644) - The printer can be pinged ...
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Printer Object stops working after changing desktop DNS from bind to Windows
We are currently migrating from bind DNS to Windows DNS. My expectation was that the printer installation on the desktop would still function after pointing to the new DNS server but it does not.
If ...
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On clients use generic driver for printer shared by CUPS
I know this worked really easy with a recent CUPS version some years ago. Unfortunately I fail to do the following with latest CUPS nowadays. How to share a printer without using printer specific ...
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Can't print from some hosts on the network
I have a HP Color LaserJet CM6040 connected on a network, and have many hosts (laptops) connected wirelessly to it, but some of the hosts can't print on this printer.
I've restarted the printer and ...
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Network printer not detected but still works
We just set up a Canon iR 1024 printer as a shared Network printer. (It was used before by two people and they were connected on the same switch.) Now it is in another subnet and from other subnets ...
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Trouble with Network Printer on Windows 7
I have a couple of WiFi printers. Almost all of the computers that need to connect can, however, I am having trouble with a Windows 7 machine. Whenever I try to connect it brings up a screen that ...
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Terminal Server network printers not available for users
I have a server that has 4x Multi Function devices added to it, and then 4x Terminal Servers, each with the 4x MF devices added as network printers.
These are available and work fine for the ...
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Create secure share for Office Scanner save destinations
We have an office Bizhub, I need to setup individual users. The boss wants each user to have their own local shared destination on their workstation, she does not want other users to see everyone's ...
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faulting application spoolsv.exe Windows Server 2008
I have a brand new Windows 2008 server that acts as a print server and DC. I have installed 4 printers on it; Canon LBP3460, Canon LBP6650DN, Canon MF9170, Xerox Phaser 6010 and a PDF printer ...
