Locally attached printers

[ascotta]

Anyone come accross this particular beaut.

My clients have locally attached printers or at least some have.

I have installed the drivers for these printers.
I have checked user manager and Client config.
There is no reason for these printers not to be available.
But they are not.
Imported print server printers are available.

I do not get any message in eventvwr about not being able to attach to client printers.

Could this be a WINS issue ? Reason I ask is that I recently created a new WINS server on the network and am getting some funnies with it.



Cheers
Scott

 

[ascotta]

What a plank.

Environment.

NT4 domain.

XP in testing at present with no SP or FR, and is on W2K3.
There is an old Winframe server lying about.

WINS lives on a NT4 DC box currrently, new WINS on NT4 BDC.

Cheers
Scott

 

[OzDog]

Could be the Win2K3 policies.

By default, Win2K3 does not allow NT4 printer drivers, as they are "kernel mode" not "user mode"

Check this link...

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/technologies/fileandprint/print/choosingdrivers.asp

My suggestion - get new drivers for everything, or as a last resort, allow them thru group policy.

Cheers,
Sam

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[ascotta]

Hmmmm,

not entirely sure of what you are saying.
I installed the drivers before attaching any clients. Therfore I would have expected these to be Win2K3 or at least Win2L.

Clients are a mix of XP & win2K & win98 Win95 etc.

Will have a look at group policy tho'



Cheers
Scott

 

[OzDog]

The drivers themselves may be NT4. Check it by trying this (as an Admin)..

Open Printers & Faxes
File -> Server Properties
"Drivers" tab lists the currently installed drivers.

Any driver that says "Windows 2000 or XP" in the version is a "User Mode" or "Version 3" driver.
If they say "Windows NT 4.0 or 2000" then they are actually a legacy "Kernel Mode" or "version 2" driver.

Windows 2003 will not allow these Kernel mode drivers by default. The document link I posted explains all of that.


Cheers,
Sam

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[xs4citrix]

Since it's running on win2k3, i will asume FR3:
Could you check the following:

- The FR level of the server in the CMC, MUST be set on FR3
- The FR3 licenses must be installed, and activated
- The client must run at least citrix version 7

http://www.printingsupport.com

Free citrixprinting support

 

[victorv]

hi,
ensure that in CCC (citrix conn. config), there are not
explicit deny to map dirvers/printers at client.
bye

 

[ascotta]

OK Guys thanks for the input.
I have it fixed I applied Hotfix XE103W2K3011 and it worked.
I have a few mapping issues but hey I can print now.

Not running Fr3 YET.

I have never come accross this one before as Client printers just work..

Cheers
Scott