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Questions tagged [shared-printers]

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How to find the printer driver properties

I have 15 print servers in our environment in different offices. Before upgrading of drivers i would like to display a report with the below information. 32 or 64 bit and Driver last installed or upgraded date. Any help will be…
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Advice on setting up a print server

I am in the process of creating a central control point to distribute printers among people inside of the domain. Right now there are a couple printers installed on miscellaneous servers that are shared and printers are installed via TCP/IP port on…
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Setting up printers in active directory

I need some help setting up a printer in Active Directory. Specifically, deploying them via GPO. I want to have a computer associates with a specific shared computer so that anyone sitting there is able to use the printer. How do I do this?
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User cannot access shared printer in Windows Server 2003

I have: A Windows Server 2003 machine acting as a file server and domain controller. Call this "Server 1". Another Windows Server 2003 machine acting as a terminal server, file server and DNS server. Call this one "Server 2". People often log in to…
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Limiting which printers a Remote Desktop Services user sees

I have an RDS server with about a dozen printers installed. Is there a way to remove all buta few certain printers for a particular user? I don't mean that I want to "secure" the other printers to keep them from printing to them, but literally…
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How to share print drivers from a 64 bit Windows server to 32 bit client machines

I'm sure this is a dumb question, but I can't for the life of me figure out what the heck is going on. I've looked around and I've seen similar questions of this nature, but nothing exactly matching my issue. I'm looking to replace my current…
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Where are these printers coming from in "Devices and Printers?"

EDIT: I think it is coming from HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Printers\ConvertUserDevModesCount. I see all of the original and new printer connections listed in here as well as a ton of repeating \\CSR|\{} entries. I found this article…
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What would be the most reliable way of capturing print jobs over a network?

I work for a retail store in a small town. We have charge accounts for workers and truckers to come by, get what they want, sign the papers and then get back to work. That's not really a problem, but my boss wanted to have signature pads set up at…
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Print Seperator files on Server 2016 not working in an alternate location

With Server 2008 R2 and 2012R2, we were able to have the *.sep files stored in a location outside of System32, C:\SepFiles\coversheet.sep. As long as the folder had the name SepFiles it was working. We recently installed a new 2016 Server and have…
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AD print group not working in some cases

On our computer network there are many printers, and for some groups the task of connecting the closest printer has been sort of automated by creating a security group named print- When we add computers to the group, the named printer is…
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Various printer deployment issue with Server 2012 R2

I have just set up a new remote desktop infrastructure, with all servers being built on Server 2012 R2. I have 7 session hosts, and a central file/print server. On the print server, I have added network printers using their IP address, shared them,…
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User can not access network printers with Windows 7 connected to Windows 2008 R2

A single user on Windows 7 on a Windows Domain can not access/use/manipulate network printers shared from a server running Windows 2008 R2. The error that occurs is "0x00000005 Access is denied". Any other user I create in the system can access…
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Connecting to network printer(s) using net use

I was asked to add pinters to all users on a terminal server. There is a VPN connection between the terminal server and the network where the printer is installed. I do not have much experience with network shares, but I managed to connect to the…
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Printer driver update keeps asking for administrator credentials

I have a Windows 2008 Server with the printer management configured. I share 6 printers with the drivers of the maker. The problem is when I update the printer driver at the workstation, that the user is prompted for administrator credentials. I…
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Mass moving users to new printers with group policy?

I work for a small IT company that does a lot of network/systems administration and consultation for small businesses. We've been helping one of our clients move away from an old Dell 2950 with Windows Server 2003 (this is just one of their many…
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