So, I guess my simple question is why is printer discovery broken and
how do i fix it? We haven't rolled out many Win7 machines and I'm not
sure if this is a common issue or not. My google-fu is failing.
Bill
Bill Humphries wrote:
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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