My understanding is that if you manually connect to a shared printer
using win 7 it will try to use a shared print driver on the server, but
if you use the autodiscover it will check for a local compatible print
driver and offer to use it. I could misunderstand this. Regardless, I
would expect the problem desktop to be able to see the shared printers
even if it didn't have a drivers for them.
My first thought is you had the 64-Bit drivers already installed on your laptop
but no 64-bit drivers installed on the Print Server.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Humphries [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 3:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: win7 printer discovery
Hi all,
So I have a client with a SBS 2003 network. The have one new HP desktop that
is win7 x64. When you click the add printer wizard it does not see any of the
networked printers installed on the SBS server. The SDDP discovery service is
started on the desktop.
My laptop is a thinkpad with Win& x64 and it is simply authenticated by me
manually to the network ( ie not a domain member), but I can see and add any of the
network printers.
It took me thirty seconds to add a printer to my notebook. I'd like it to be
that easy with any new Win 7 machines they purchase. What would cause the auto
discovery to fail? Also, thought it was weird that when I tried to manually add
an HP printer, the HP desktop didn't offer a compatible driver, but my thinkpad
had a PCL 5e driver available.
Thanks for any help.
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