Error when adding Published Printers in AD

[Chris Sibel]

Hey Guys,
I have a server computer running Windows 2000 server that host my domain
with an active directory. I have a few computers that are running windows 98
and a few that are running XP pro. Now they are all connecting to the
Windows 2000 server domain. I'm trying to publish all the shared printers to
the active directory. The machines on win98 that have printers work fine
when I add the printer to the active directory. Now the XP pro machines have
the option to automatically publish the shared printer to the active
directory. So I have that option enabled and they appear when I go to add
the printer and search the AD. But when I click to printer from the AD
search results an error occurs when I try to connect to any of the XP
printers. The error I get is as followed.

"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed
incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost its connection to the server.
For more information, click Help."

Does anyone know why this happens. I've tried to manually publish the
printers (that are on an XP pro OS) in the active directory but that also
generates an error message that reads:

"This printer cannot be published. To publish printers on windows 2000
computers, use the Printers folder."

I haven't been able to find a solution for this. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Chris

 

[diasmith [MSFT]]

Hello Chris,

I saw your post and I just wanted to check to see if you are still having
this issue?

Other Info
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A. 282817 Error Message: Could Not Connect to the Printer. You Either
Entered a
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=282817

B. You can manually connect to the printer using the url.

Thank You.

Diana

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