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by invincible_amritsar

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I have two questions:

1. We are making new print server and I wanted to know if we set-up new Print server and give the same hostname an IP address to it as was given to the currently live server. IN that case, do we have to re-configure Printer on user's machine or not?

2. My second question is I have just put one of the server in workgroup and then re-joined to domain, but after re-joining it is not showing in Active directoty, however I can see in DNS forward look-up zone?

regards,
RAvi bhanot

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by mr.sweetchuck

Hi,
Firstly, 2 machines cannot share the same IP address. I would assume that your DC is acting as your DNS server, so I wouldn't suggest changing the IP address of the DC. You're asking for something to go wrong if you do. I'd recommend reconfiguring the clients to look at the new print server for printing.

As for your second point, fistly confirm that it's part of the domain. After that, I'd be inclined to think that you may need to wait for AD replication to be able to see it.

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