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I have a W2K server with W2K Pro and XP Pro clients. I have 3 labs and up to 25 client computers in each lab. One computer in each lab has a printer installed on it and is shared. When I run the Add Printer Wizard on any of the client computers I can make it all the way to where I see the computer that has the shared printer installed. Problem is that when I double click on the computer so that I can select the shared printer nothing happens. I can not finish installing a shared printer on any of the client computers.
I used to be able to do this up until two weeks ago. I don't know what happened.

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by sgt_shultz

you install or reset dhcp server lately? i would try this. i would walk to a bad printer. if it was connected to a comptuer via lpt or usb i would print a test page to it from that comptuer.if it was on the network with its own nic or a print server and a tcpip connection i would get printer to print me its configuration page to see what ip and subnet mask it is at. i would go back to client computer and go to properties of printer and pick ports then Configure for its port. if it were Standard or Hp tcpip printer port i would check to see if i configured its ip address and subnet mask to match configuration page, if it would work. if not a standard tcpip printer port i would add a new one. what kind of printers? if fixing the ip address fixes it, you will want long term to make those printers static addresses or reserve them address in your dhcp server so they get same ones all the time and this doesn't happen again...

by sgt_shultz

wonder, did you install or reset dhcp server lately? i would try this. if bad printer was connected the network via a computer by lpt or usb, i would print a test page to it from that computer. if it was on the network with its own nic or a print server i would get printer to self-print me its configuration page to see what ip and subnet mask it is at. i would go back to client computer and go to Printer, then properties of bad printer and pick Details tab then Ports then Configure. check to see if its configured to same ip address and subnet mask as on its self-print. or try a New standard tcpip printer port. what kind of printers? if fixing the ip address fixes it, you will want long term to make those configure the printers at static addresses or reserve their address in your dhcp server so they get same ones all the time and this doesn't happen again...

by trevione

My DHCP is coming from another computer (Windows Server 2003). That computer is fine and has not been restarted.
My printers are all HP LaserJet 1100, 2100, and a 4050. They are not network printers. They are all installed at a local computer and shared from that computer. All are on lpt1 and I can print a test page from all of them. I just can't install on a client computer.

by narayan.prajapati

Login as domain administrator on client computer and go to My Network Places-->and find computer where your local printer installed
and right click on shared printer name and click
install option to try install network printer.

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