Re: SBS 2008 Network Printers OK in DHCP, can't add to server
- From: Jim Behning SBS MVP <jimbehning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 09:57:42 -0500
What interface are you using to set up the printers? The one that you
would think you would use is the wrong one. You have to install server
printer role.
Start
Administrative Tools
Server Manager
Continue
Roles
Add Roles
Print Services
and a bunch of affirmatives
Then Start
Administrative Tools
Print Manager
continue
Expand Print Servers
Right click Printers
Add a printer.
I listed that printer in the directory. I did not see it when I went
back to the SBS console. I went back to the Print Manager and I shared
it. Now I saw it in the SBS console.
Note that I may be doing things the hard way. I had a little temper
tantrum the first time I had to do this.
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 22:24:24 -0800 (PST), jaseinatl
<jaseinatl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have installed SBS2008 and everything is going great! Except forSee what SBS support is working on
printers. I cannot get even one of my three networked printers to show
up. They are all set to acquire addresses using BootP/DHCP and I
created reservations for them in the DHCP console. They all get the
correct IP addresses, WINS server address, DNS configuration, etc.I
have each workstation printing directly to the printers and they are
working great.
However, they do not show up in SBS2008 printers. Even if I manually
declare an IP address, they don't show up. Even if I share the printer
from an XP workstation it doesn't appear in SBS2008. Though a non-
networked printer shared on one of my workstations does show up, it's
my bosses printer and not really appropriate to use.
Occasionally, when I do the autodiscover printer feature and tell it
to guess, but give it a valid IP address, it pauses and then spits out
"Error talking to printer", printer not named correctly" or something.
I have two HPLJ1320tn and one Canon ImageRunner 6020i. I have
dowloaded the 64 bit PostScript, PCL6, PCL5 and PCL5e drivers as well
as the 32 bit drivers of the same.
in DHCP, they are named PR01.mydomain.lan
PR02.mydomain.lan
PR03.mydomain.lan
their ip addresses are 10.10.10.201
10.10.10.202
10.10.10.203
their SMB names are PR01
PR02
PR03
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Though it would be nice to use
the printServer functions in SBS2008, I would just like to be able to
print at all from my server.
Thanks in advance for any advice/suggestions/support.
Best wishes,
Jase
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