Re: Finding AD printers

From: Scott Adams (scott.adams_at_npiusa.com)
Date: 05/08/04 

Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 15:56:09 -0700

I left the default share permissions of Everyone- Print. Unsharing and
resharing seemed to do nothing. What is strange is I can see a list of
printers in the Entire Directory on my file server (Win2K Server), but I
cannot see the Entire Directory from clients (Win2K Pro). Any ideas there?

"Brian Desmond [MVP]" <desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us> wrote in message
news:uYIVFLMNEHA.3668@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Scott,
>
> Does the client have rights to the printer? What happens if you unshare
and
> reshare it?
>
> --
> --
> Brian Desmond
> Windows Server MVP
> desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us
>
> http://www.briandesmond.com
>
>
> "Scott Adams" <scott.adams@npiusa.com> wrote in message
> news:%23TeG6CHNEHA.3572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > I'm running a mixed mode 2000 domain. I have shared a printer on a
Windows
> > 2000 Server and by default it's "List in the Directory" is checked. I
then
> > went to a Windows 2000 Pro client to add the network printer. When the
> > Locate Printer dialog appears, the default option reads "Find a printer
in
> > the Directory". I click Next and the Find Printers dialog appears. By
> > default, the search starts in the "Entire Directory". When I click Find
> Now
> > (specifying no search criteria), nothing appears. When I specify search
> > criteria that would normally bring up the printer, nothing is found.
Yet,
> > when I view the AD snap-in (with users and computers viewed as
containers)
> I
> > see the printer as a child object under the computer object. What is
going
> > on?
> >
> > --
> > Scott Adams
> > ~~ not the Dilbert guy ~~
> > ~~ not the creator of the Adventure series ~~
> >
> >
>
>

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