Searching Printers on Client machines

[arell12]

Kind of a Windows Client and Server question so hopefully this is the correct Forum.

When a user wants to add a network printer and they select add a network printer, it only shows printers that are connected to Domain Controllers. We have a few other servers that are not domain controllers but do have printers shared on them and are not showing up. Any idea how to fix this so that all printers shared on the servers will show up?

 

[amanua]

How are the printers connected?
Are they network printers attached to the switches or directly attached to the servers via USB

 

[dberg35]

Are they all on the same network? If so then it could be an issue with DNS or firewall.

 

[arell12]

All the printers are network printers. Like a Lexmark or Ricoh with a internal network card. Printers would be on different subnets but all part of a single domain. For example each site is something like 192.168.X.0/24 and we have multiple sites. Some sites have domain controllers and some just have file and print servers. Whe I search for printers in the directory only the ones on domain controllers show up.

 

[dberg35]

Ok so the issues is DNS. If all the sites used the same server and that server was doing DNS and AD then searching for the printers would work. Is there a VPN between the sites?

 

[nsanto17]

Check to make sure the printers on those servers are set to be published in the directory