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by ogruizr

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I have a PC with windows 95 and I need to install a printer that is listed in the Active Directory. What can I do to install the printer?

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by xiaxiong

Win95 can't get the printer from AD. You need to find the path name to the printer (example: //computer/printer ) and connect to it using "add printers" in your printer folder. If you are using netbios, you can also browse the network in "networkneighborhood" to find the computer and install the printer from there. (Of course, this assumes your network is in mixed mode.)

HTH...

by huckleberryhound

Answer #1 is not exactly correct. You can add printers to Windows 95 computers but you need to have the Directory Services client installed. The best method for adding printers is to do a query against the global catalog. You do this by clicking on START ... FIND ... PRINTERS then click on the FIND NOW button. This will show you all of the printers that have been published in Active Directory. Find the printer you want to add and double-click on it.

By the way, this is the ONLY way toadd a printer with a share name that is longer than twelve characters to a Win 9x client.

by ogruizr

I would want to print using AD because I don't want to link the PCs to only one Print Server. Can not do that installing dsclient.exe?

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