RE: Printers don't work after W2K3 install

Thks Vincent. That wasn't my concern. They are printing. My concern were
the printers not printing before, even though the shared name and IP addr
were the same as the old Print Server.

"Vincent Xu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi,

Check two things:

1. Can you print any documents on the new print server?
2. Can you access any shared folder on the new print server?(create a new
shared folder to test)

Thanks.

Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Maybe my explanation wasn't clear. That were the steps (kinda) that I
took.
The mystery behind all this, is why would the clients failed to connect
to
all these printers on the Print Server running W2K3 R2? The printer
share
name and IP addr of the Print Server is the same.
The Print Server before was running W2K.

"Vincent Xu [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi,

Based on my knowledge, the steps can be:

1. Install a new printer server
2. Using same IP address, computer name and printer share name for the
new
printer server.
3. take the previous printer server offline
4. Join the new printer server into domain
5. Grant corresponding permissions to printer users.

The failed cause can be various. I'd like to suggest you check the
registry
key at :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Printers\Connections\

to see if the connection is properly set.


Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hi, we had a number of printers installed onto a Win2K Server DC
acting
as a
printer server besides other network services. IP addr was
x.x.x.100. I
then proceed to setup a W2K3 R2 Server, renamed it to the same name
as
the
Win2K server after taking the old server down. Changed the IP addr
back
to
its original as x.x.x.100. So the printers shared name is the same
as
before. However, the clients' machine do not recognize these
printers
anymore. It indicated as "Printer not found" in their Printers and
Faxes
properties. All I had to do was remove these printers and resetup.
Just
wondering why wouldn't the printers continue to work because the
printers
share name and server IP addr is the same as before.






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