Roaming Profiles & network printers

[Craig]

Hello all. I've got a variety of Windows PCs (Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP)
all running in a Windows 2000 domain environment. I've been using roaming
profiles, but am considering changing. I've had a lot of problems with
mapped network printers no appearing on different workstations other than
the one where I origionally setup the printer. Do the network printers not
follow with the profile?

Thanks in advance!

RC

 

[Subrahmanya Bhandarkar [MSFT]]

Hi Read below link

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308296&Product=win20
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Network Printers May Not Be Displayed if You Use Roaming Profiles in
Windows 2000
View products that this article applies to.
This article was previously published under Q308296
SYMPTOMS
When you are using a roaming profile and you log on to a computer that has
a local printer, you might not see all of your network printer connections.
CAUSE
The Printers interface is designed to hide network printers that are
already installed as local printers. In some situations this mechanism
hides printers that are not installed locally.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes
or later: Date Time Version Size File name
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07-Nov-2001 21:06 5.0.2195.4426 63,248 Spoolss.dll



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products
that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first
corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000
Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only
one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows
2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
Last Reviewed: 12/4/2003 (3.0)
Keywords: kbbug kbenv kbfix kbSysAdmin kbui kbWin2000PreSP3Fix
kbWin2000sp3fix KB308296



Subbu
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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hello all. I've got a variety of Windows PCs (Windows 98, ME, 2000,
and XP) all running in a Windows 2000 domain environment. I've been
using roaming profiles, but am considering changing. I've had a lot
of problems with mapped network printers no appearing on different
workstations other than the one where I origionally setup the
printer. Do the network printers not follow with the profile?

They should....how are the printers networked? With internal print servers
assigned a TCP/IP address, shared from the server?