Questions tagged [print-server]
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How does Network Printing work exactly?
I'm dealing with a big printing issue within our Citrix environment and have been trying to learn as much as I can about how Network Printing works.
I'll provide what I believe to understand, please ...
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Adding shared printer from 2012R2 Print Server: Access denied
Windows Server 2012R2 (x64)
Set "in" domain1
Enabled Print and Document Services role with Print Server and LPD Service services
Accessible with user account domain2\user
Shared printer (LPT1/Generic/...
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Why are users seeing UAC, when installing shared printer drivers, when they were not previously after a printer host name change?
I have a Windows 2008R2 print server hosting about 40 printers. For the longest time we had a Point and Print GPO that allowed the users to install the drivers for these printers without ...
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Windows 10 as domain print server?
While it seems than win10 pro can expose a print server, I've tried to experiment a bit to understand if this print service can be used as a role in our domain.
Basically other machines can see the ...
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How do I successfully deploy shared printers via GPO? Windows 10 Pro + Windows Server 2012 R2
I keep getting a GPO error 0x80070bcb on my Windows 10 Pro clients when trying to install a Brother shared network printer. Apparently this error means it can't find a driver (or can't install it).
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How do I remove "on PrintServerName" from printer name when deployed?
We are publishing shared printers from a print server with GPP (Win Server 2012 R2), and all is good and well. But is it possible to have the shared printers added to the clients without the "on ...
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Moving printers from Windows Server 2012 to Windows Server 2012 R2
Currently we are hosting multiple printers (different brand & models) on a Windows Server 2012 Print Server.
On this server, printers are added manually using Windows Print Management Tool & ...
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Diffrent settings for diffrent file types with one printer queue. Windows server 2012
I have been tasked with doing the following:
Using only one printer queue, make sure .docx gets printed with "1-sided print" while .pdf gets printed with "2-sided print".
Is this possible without ...
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Centrally deploying print drivers to Windows clients
I'm looking to set up a central print server to allow Windows 7 and 10 clients in remote offices without a local print server to have print drivers installed automatically when the printer is added ...
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Do i need a print server at each remote site?
I am planning a network for a project and am wondering how to proceed with print services. This topology has a main office with 2 remote branch offices. I plan to create one domain with 2 remote ...
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Applications locking up when printing to a print server
I have a few printers set up on a print server. When some of my users try to print, the first print job seems to go through fine. After that, trying to send another print job to a printer completely ...
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2012 R2 print server not showing file names on Event id 307
I'm having trouble logging detailed information on my print server. Operational logging is enabled and working. The event ID 307 displays information about the jobs printed, but instead of the file ...
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Tracking down rogue GPO that is applying printers to all users?
I use GPOs to push printers out to 10 different site, each site has its own policy. But for some reason all sites are getting the printers from site 1 when they login to terminal servers. They don't ...
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How do print servers work?
This is more of a conceptual question than a question about an actual setup in practice.
Let's say I have a network printer, a print server (server A) and workstations B and C that will use the print ...
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Upgraded Wintel Environment from 2003 to 2012R2, now only 2 Win10 clients can't see network shares or print, all other 78 W7Pro can
Over the last week I've migrated all of our services running on Server 2003 to our 2012R2 environment successfully.
This included: AD, DHCP, DNS, Print server, File serving using the migration tool, ...
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Printserver failing after changing DNS servers
We are currently swapping our DNS servers out, going from an older IP range to a newer one. The network side has been setup and working fine for a couple of years, there are just a few servers still ...
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Print server PS310U and Printer standby mode
I am experiencing an annoying behavior with my Tp-Link PS310U print server.
I have connected it to a Samsung C430 printer, which is a USB laser printer. Actually, everything works fine as long as the ...
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Not all printers are deployed on the client using Group Policy
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in our environment we are using the following servers to deploy printers in our domain forest:
Windows Small Business Server 2008: contains the group policy to deploy the printers
Windows ...
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Is print job data stored locally or on the server side when I use a Windows print server?
I have read Why use a print server? and it does not indicate the location of print job data.
When I restarted the local printer service today to fix a problem with a stuck job, all jobs disappeared (...
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How to Manage Server-pushed Printers on Individual Workstation (Printer Properties Issue in Programs)
I'm troubleshooting a print issue on a particular workstation, Windows 7 Pro. I can open Devices and Printers and access all the info, like Printer Properties, Printing Preferences, etc., from there. ...
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Windows Server 2012 TCP/IP Port Exhaustion Caused by spoolsv.exe
I have a server 2012 installation that is hosting all of our printers for our school district. as well as the google cloud print service so that our chromebooks can print. Over the last couple months ...
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AD print group not working in some cases
On our computer network there are many printers, and for some groups the task of connecting the closest printer has been sort of automated by creating a security group named print-
When we add ...
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Foxit virtual PDF printer [closed]
I installed Foxit PDF virtual printer on my server to create an unattended PDF virtual printer (it saves to a given directory). I shared such virtual printer.
When I print directly from the server ...
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Printing from a windows service in one domain to a print server in another windows domains without trust
I face the the following problem:
We have one Windows domain with an application running in an user context of user of this domain (let's call this domain "A"). This Windows service has to print to an ...
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A large number of JetDirect firmware updates - what issues do they address?
HP recently released a large number of firmware updates for JetDirect devices. There is no changelog provided. Curiously, many obsolete (e.g., 802.11b) devices are in the list, and the last time a ...
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Deploying printers to specific users via Group Policy
I have noticed two different ways of deploying printers to specific user with Group Policy in Windows Server 2012. The first method is by creating separate GPOs for each group, and the second method ...
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Access violation at address XXXX in module 'winspool.drv'. Read of address XXXX
I am running a c# application that shells out to a PDF printer and prints documents (roughly a document every second, to different printers). I randomly get these errors being returned from the ...
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Server 2008 print server with existing printers
I recently started new job and one of my tasks is to look into all systems and ensure they are properly configured and running at optimal settings.
One of the issues I run into is the print server. ...
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Various printer deployment issue with Server 2012 R2
I have just set up a new remote desktop infrastructure, with all servers being built on Server 2012 R2. I have 7 session hosts, and a central file/print server.
On the print server, I have added ...
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CUPS-PDF Output Filename Fix
I'm using Virtual PDF Printer with cups-pdf package in debian 7.7 wheezy.
I have some problem with output PDF filename.
It's work correctly when I Print .rtf document with wordpad.
But, when I Print ....
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Win 2008_R2 print spooler issues and Client freezes
Environment:
Windows 2008 R2 Print Server (Virtual)
178 Printers installed. All using TCP/IP
Many different printer brands
Most all employees print through this print server
Problems:
The spooler ...
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How to remotely manage 2012 R2 print server
We have a Windows 2012 R2 server, that is running print services and hosting printers.
I am using the management console snapp-in on another 2012 R2 machine to try and access the server remotely and ...
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How to crash spooler service
Does anyone know how I can crash the spooler service manually?
I have a problem with some drivers crashing it randomly, and I want to do it manually so I can do some tests.
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Migrating a Microsoft Print Cluster to a single virtual machine
We have two physical servers being used as a clustered print server. The physical servers are EOL and we want to migrate the print services to a single VM. Does anyone have any suggestions on the ...
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Remove printers from directory that were on an old server
I had a standalone Windows 2012 box that was acting as the printer server in my domain. Since then I've removed it and moved printer hosting elsewhere.
However, when I open up the directory (through "...
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Google Cloud Print Fails - Finding Logs?
Recently we've been seeing Google Cloud Print Service fail to print on Xerox printers.
We're relatively sure it's a Drivers issue.
When attempting to Print to a Xerox printer, the Cloud Print portal ...
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Finding which printer or user is crashing spooler
I have a Windows Server 2012 print server that is having the Print Spooler c:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe crash. The Application Log in Event Viewer shows me that the crashing .DLL is LMUD1PLANG.DLL ...
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Does replacing network printer with same exact model require reinstall on print server?
I have a network printer that users connect to via a Windows Server 2012 machine. The printer went bad and we are having it replaced with the exact same model. It will also be using the exact same IP ...
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is it possible to delegate file srv and print srv managing to other users in windows 2008 R2 without giving them full admin rights?
we have some field service guys that work locally for some of our customers, we want to transfer the tasks of managing file servers and print servers to them. first we Thought about giving them local ...
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Print Server Migration and Client Installs
I am migrating to a new print server running Windows 2008R2. The hardware will be new, but I will use the old print server's IP, host name, printers and settings.
Will my clients using these ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Print Server. Copying printer and giving new driver
Is there a way of copying a printer on a print server (Server 2008 R2) and then giving it a new name and new print driver?
In a nutshell - 1 printer but with two names.
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Print Manager Does not Show Printers
Server 2012 R2 have about 40 printers installed all TCP/IP port based printers shared out.
I was able to see and manage the printers on the print server via print manager, and then all of a sudden I ...
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Server 08 Print server deploying to server 03
Server 08 R2 setup as a printer server with 300+ printers installed.
I created an empty GPO and enforced it on the OU containing a few servers that are server 03 that I need the printers to be ...
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How to manage multiple printers?
I have about 15 printers in my organization. We are currently dealing with the problem that when we change or add one (or god forbid, more) printers we have to go to each client PC, remove the old ...
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CUPS Print Server; Multiple Destinations
We have about 15 printers in our office, each one a different make or model, and requiring a different driver, with differing locations as well, ranging from peoples desks to breakrooms. Due to this, ...
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W7 machine unable to connect to printers hosted by 2003 R2 Print Management Service
I'm currently testing Windows 7 x64 within our business ahead of finally moving all computers off of Windows XP.
Everything seemed to go swimmingly until recently my desktop has been unable to ...
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How to better track and debug what happens with files stuck in the print spooler?
I have a print server running Windows Server 2012 which is shared in a domain and is used by terminal services clients.
The domain network spans between countries using tunnels and in some ...
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Azure print server - running everything in Azure?
I might have get dragged into a Project involving moving the whole IT shop into Azure. Now that means they have on-site AD, LOB Applications, SQL, Sharepoint etc, plus of course moving to Office 365, ...
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Possibility to have two versions of same printer driver on Windows Server 2008 R2
I have print server running Windows Server 2008 R2 with cca 100 of print queues installed.
For easier handling of printer driver updates, mainly universal drivers from printer vendors are being used.
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Know when physical printer changed
In my organization we have two guys dealing with different aspects of our printers.
One is the helpdesk team leader who's responsible (among other related things) for updating the list of printers and ...