Does this happen on a machine with no local printers installed as well? I run Vista and I can set any network printer I want as default. I have one Vista machine in another building that has local and default printers, and while the local printer is default, I know the machine can print to network printers as well. In other words, it works the same as other XP machines and as one would expect.
-- Mike Gill From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VISTA, Printers, Bill Gates, and a .50 CAL Sorry for the long post. I am at my wits end with a Vista machine problem that I only saw prior to RTM. Vista clients cannot set a server based default printer. No errors, cannot change the default printer, and even in Apps when selecting the printer, it will still only print to whatever is the default. You can switch the default printer between local printers no problem. You can delete the network printer(s) and then add them back and set them as default until a spooler reset or reboot. Then you lose the ability to set them as default, and the default printer has reverted to a local printer. If I manually add the printer locally to the IP it works fine and I can set it as default, but at that point it's a local printer. At anytime you are able to print a test page to any printer regardless of whether you can set it as default. Checked registry permissions on HKCU, user is a Domain admin, Local Admin of the machine, UAC is off, tried it under the admin account as well as user acct. Deleted all print drivers from the machine, rebooted, reinstalled, same issue. No changes to the domain or server in months, has been using Vista for at least 3 or 4 months, no updates to Vista in 1 month, and all of a sudden it has begun happening. I am beside myself and google shows a wealth of the same issues before RTM, but was reported fixed. This is a Dell OEM version. My next step is to delete their profile and start again, which is the only post I have seen that seemed to temporarily resolve the issue for one guy. Anyone seen a similar issue? Or have a resolution step? Close to getting a bunch of Vista boxes, poster sized pictures of Gates and sitting on his lawn with a .50 cal and showing him what I think of Vista. Thanks Greg ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
