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Setting up a shared network printer on 2008 R2

Chrishuff1

Platinum Member
Uggg. I'm beating my head on the wall trying to figure this out, it can't be this hard or I'm totally overlooking something.

We just bought a few HP LaserJet Pro MFP M127fn for the office. All our printers here are setup as shared printers on our file print server. When I add a new printer I first set the IP address on the printer then on the server (2008 R2) I select Add a Printer, pick network, pick printer not listed, add using TCP/IP address, use auto detect for the type and enter the IP I chose for the printer. It then finds it and installs the drivers I downloaded from HP's site. Everything appears to go fine, no errors etc. but nothing will print. I can print through other means but I cannot for the life of me get it to work over the network. If I browse to the IP in Chrome I get the config page as expected so I know it's working.

Thoughts?
 
Well that's f'n weird.

I installed it on a workstation and it prints fine but I can't get it to print from the server (not that I'll ever print from the server)...odd.
 
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