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Adding Network Printers

drum

drum

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We have a few servers at work that have various printers shared, i'll call them East, West, North, and South. When I try to add one of those printers through the add printer wizard -> network printer -> connect to this printer (or Browse) East, West, North, and South should be listed and i can choose from a few different printers.
instead it just says 'Microsoft Windows Network' and I can't drill down through the network to find the printer.
If i go to the North server and try to add a printer, the wizard shows the East, West, and South servers and their printers, but not North.
This occurs on all OS. I've tried stopping and starting all print spoolers and related services on the servers and desktops and have tried restarting the servers and desktops to no avail. is there something easy i'm missing?
 
If you do a

net view \\Northserver_IP

from a client, does it list the north printer? If it doesn't, but other parts of the network are fine, it's probably be firewalls or security settings preventing access.
 
net view \\northserver lists all shared printers on the north server as normal, but if i try to add those printers through the add printer wizard from the same client I just ran the net view from, the server nor the printers show up in the tree.
 
Hmm, why do you have it seperated? At my work we have just one print server, which makes this easy.
 
Originally posted by: Malak
Hmm, why do you have it seperated? At my work we have just one print server, which makes this easy.
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i'm not in charge of that first of all, and secondly, we have servers all over the state that employees connect to that have various printers shared.

It seems like this is a simple fix and i'm just missing something.
I should mention that on the Norht server I was getting the same 'Microsoft Windows Network' in the printer list as well. It went away with a print spooler restart. This doesn't work on the work stations and even on the North server it lists all servers but itself.
I can add printers other ways, but this needs to be fixed
 
Turns out one of the servers on the same subnet was hung up. Restarting that server plus restarting the print spooler on the other server on that subnet seems to have things up and running
 
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