Sharing printer on a domain 1

[YoBi4Ever]

I have connected all workstations to a domain.
THe workstations running win xp pro sp2 with no firewall enabled and windows server 2000.
THings work great but I have a printer connected to one of the workstation and I wanted to share it with no luck what so ever.
while logged in as domain administrator to the workstation
I right clicked the printer, went to sharing, enabled it and types the name of the printer and also check add to list directory.

I went to another workstation and logged in as domain administrator and tried to search for network printers but no luck.

Any ideas?

Thank you.

 

[Davetoo]

Can you see it if you enter \\computername and press enter from an Explorer window?

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[YoBi4Ever]

THANK YOU! I tried everything and this worked.
HOWEVER, I have this problem now: When I print a get a message saying that the print command failed!

Any ideas please?

Thanks again

 

[YoBi4Ever]

NEVERMIND!!!!
Someone decided to unplug the printer in the other room!

Everything works just Great

THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

You don't know how much your post helped! May God bless you!


Do you know why the printer is not listed in the Active Directory list or why I can't search for it and find it?

 

[Davetoo]

Try searching for all printers in your domain and see if it comes up. I've seen it happen before when I tried to be specific it wouldn't appear.

I'm Certifiable, not cert-ified.
It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[YoBi4Ever]

I did search for all printers but with no luck.
Anyway, \\ wordked but it would of been nice to search for it.

Thanks.