The Active Directory Domain Service is currently unavailable

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Steve Clements

I am on a Vista laptop, connected by wireless to an XP-Home (SP4) desktop.
Connected to the desktop is a Canon printer.
 
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Steve Clements

Sorry. Start again.

I am on a Vista laptop, connected by wireless to an XP-Home (SP2) desktop,
which is connected to a Canon printer. The entire network is Cable Modem,
Wireless Router, Desktop and Printer (wired), Laptop (wireless).

There are three accounts on the laptop. All three are connected to the
internet via the wireless router. Two of them can print to the Canon printer,
but the third cannot.

I give that account Admin rights. I log on as that user. I select "Print"
from a Word document and the only "Printer" available is "Microsoft XPS
Document Write". I click "Find Printer", and I get the error message in the
subject line.

I compare this user's network connection settings to the other users. I
don't see any difference, but there are a lot of settings.

I go to Start/Network. I right-click on the Desktop and select Explore. I
right-click on SharedDocs and select Explore. I select "Desktop/Printers"
from the folder structure on the left, and the Canon printer and FAX appear
and say "Ready".

So it seems that the printer is visible to this user (as it is to the other
users), but this user can't print to it.

Ugh. Thanks. (And Thanks, Microsoft, for this support community thing.)
 
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Cindy Backstein

I have a Vista computer networked to an XP computer that is physically connected to a Samsung printer. I have been printing fine for 8 months now. Suddenly I am getting this error message when I try to print from the Vista computer. The Vista computer sees the Samsung just fine. The Vista computer is able to connect to the XP computer and save a word document to the XP and then print. It just can no longer send an item to print across the network anymore. Like I said, it had been printing fine. How can I make the "Active Directory Domain Service" available again?

Thank you,
Cindy
 
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Cindy

I'm not sure my reply made it through as after I typed it, it took me to a
screen to enter my name again and then gave me a message about exceeding a
limit and to contact microsoft if I don't get an email allowing me in. So I
will try again just incase...

Thank you for replying. I have already tried that but it didn't change
anything. Cindy
 
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Gordon

alexi03 said:
I just bought a Vista PC,
Ok for all of you that are having problems connecting your computers to
wireless printers, I have a solution for you.
Click to expand...

And what has connecting to a wireless printer got to do with the subject of
this thread which is about Active Directory?

Please note:
This is NOT a chat room and although you think you are posting to a forum
run by Techarena - you are actually posting to a global Usenet Newsgroup.
Techarena forums leach off the Microsoft News Servers in order to make them
seem far busier than they really are.

You will get a far better experience if you use a newsreader and subscribe
to these groups directly, rather than through TechArena.
Setting up Outlook Express/Windows Mail to access Microsoft newsgroups
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/outlookexpressnewreader.htm

Accessing the MS newsgroups in Outlook Express/Windows Mail Newsreader
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/newsgroupsetup.mspx

If you must stay with TechArena then please follow Usenet custom by quoting
the post you are replying to, and replying to the thread.

Thank you.

http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm
 
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vegaslynne

alexi03 said:
I just bought a Vista PC,
Ok for all of you that are having problems connecting your computers to
wireless printers, I have a solution for you.

In your start-up bar, on the left hand side look for Network....

Network > Network and Sharing Center > look under Sharing and Dicovery
following it through.

Hope this helps.


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vegaslynne

Sorry- trying again-

Alexis- your post was very helpful as printer sharing was indeed off.
Unfortunately my printer is STILL offline. the drivers are installed, it
works when connected via USB, i have tried restarting... getting very
frustrated. :) any ideas? anyone? thanks so much.

Deb
 
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Sinner

vegaslynne said:
Sorry- trying again-

Alexis- your post was very helpful as printer sharing was indeed off.
Unfortunately my printer is STILL offline. the drivers are installed, it
works when connected via USB, i have tried restarting... getting very
frustrated. :) any ideas? anyone? thanks so much.
Click to expand...

I'm sure the printer manufacturer could be of some assistance. Their
support center will have more specific info than you'll find here.
 
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Bep

Doesn't this open your computer up to everyone who has internet in your area?
I'm a relatively new computer user.
 

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