Finding AD printers

[Scott Adams]

I'm running a mixed mode 2000 domain. I have shared a printer on a Windows
2000 Server and by default it's "List in the Directory" is checked. I then
went to a Windows 2000 Pro client to add the network printer. When the
Locate Printer dialog appears, the default option reads "Find a printer in
the Directory". I click Next and the Find Printers dialog appears. By
default, the search starts in the "Entire Directory". When I click Find Now
(specifying no search criteria), nothing appears. When I specify search
criteria that would normally bring up the printer, nothing is found. Yet,
when I view the AD snap-in (with users and computers viewed as containers) I
see the printer as a child object under the computer object. What is going
on?

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

Scott,

Does the client have rights to the printer? What happens if you unshare and
reshare it?

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[Scott Adams]

I left the default share permissions of Everyone- Print. Unsharing and
resharing seemed to do nothing. What is strange is I can see a list of
printers in the Entire Directory on my file server (Win2K Server), but I
cannot see the Entire Directory from clients (Win2K Pro). Any ideas there?

 

[Brian Desmond [MVP]]

Do things like searching for a computer work on a client?

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[Guest]

First Install network printer and share it with a specific name.After that publish this printer with ADS and move this object to the specific GPO .then go to the client computer and find

dont worry now u find it

if u feel any problem at any time about microsoft product then .my email id is (e-mail address removed)

 

[Scott Adams]

Yes. However, we are currently on two different subnets (192.168.0.0/24 and
192.0.0.0/8) and are in the process of moving to one (192.168.0.0/16). All
of the servers and most of the clients are on the 192..0.0.0/8 network.
Browsing for computers via My Network Places (and doing an Entire Network
browse) does not show all computers because of the subnet situation and WINS
settings.

 

[Rajmohan Sathyanarayana [MSFT]]

Hi Scott,
There is small settings to be done on the printer configuration in the AD.
this information is available in this Link.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234270&Product=win20
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Regards,
Raj
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