Hi,
I run an SBS 2000 domain. Never seen this problem before, and don’t know how to solve it.
One of my users, and only one, cannot add any printers. If he tries to find it in the directory it’s fine, but when he tries to add it, windows warns “Windows cannot connect to this printer, either the printer name was typed incorrectly or the specified printer has lost it’s connection to the server”.
Secondly, if we try to add the printer directly we get this message – “a policy is in effect which prevents you from connecting to this printer queue”.
He has one printer already listed which he can still use fine! I moved him to a new computer, and the problem repeated itself, which made me think it was a roaming profile issue. I created a new profile – but to no avail – same problem
Can anyone offer up any advice on this? The printers work fine for everyone else, so this can’t be a GPO problem, as everyone else would be affected.
ADDENDUM:
I have tried using the command line to globally add printers, they added, but can’t connect. And I have also completely disabled windows firewall as well.