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How to add printserver?

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by dennisbv

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I have a weird question. I have recently added two HP laser printers to our Windows network, they both have build in print servers and only one of them is the HP Jet direct card the other one uses an Emulex card. I can ping both of them and I can even connect to the print servers. But how do I add them to my Active directory? I was trying to setup an auto install for one of the printers and the setup program could not find the printers. If I manually add the printers to my PC with the IP address in the path I can print. I have added them to DNS. If I ping print1 the name is correctly resolved, But when I go to AD and pick new-printer and enter in print1 or //print1/print1 or any combination it is not found. Is there a trick to adding it?

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by voldar

I think you mean \\print_server\printer_share_name.
BTW, have you shared the printer?

Save the folowing line in a file, rename it addPrinter.bat, and add it to the logon script. This way, the printer will be installed on every computer at startup.

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /q /n "\\Server\printer"

by wehkingml

Try adding the printer to your File or print server using IP. Once thats done if you cant find them in Active Directory, go to Network places and drill down to that server and then shared printers. you should see it there. This works well because you will then only need to update the printdriver on the server and not on each pc.

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