I am trying to deploy three printers on our network. I have added the role of Print and Document Services to our Domain Controller and then added the printers.
I have right clicked on the printers and clicked Deploy Printer.
I have two OU's for the computers.
- Ground Floor Computers
- First Floor Computers
I added a new GPO to each of the OU's and called it Network Print (Ground/First Floor). I selected the option to apply the GPO to the computers rather than the users.
On each of the computers I then ran gpupdate /force and then rebooted the computers twice.
The shared printers are still not showing up. I can run test prints on each of the printers from the server which works perfectly. The workstation however, don't.
The server is Windows Server 2008 R2 and the workstations are all Windows XP Professional with Group Policy Preferences extension installed.
Am I missing something glaringly obvious?
Best Answer
You haven't mentioned adding
pushprinterconnections.exeto run in your Printer GPOs. You will need this to push printers to XP machines. You can get the file from Windows 2003 R2 Admin Tools by downloading pmcmgmt.exe and extracting it on an XP machine. Add this file to the GPOs in theComputer Configuration> Windows Settings> Srcripts(Startup/Shutdown).