Hi,
Have a weird issue of which i can’t find any technical posts for. I have published a couple of printers (in AD2003) on a satellite site which has it’s own print server, but no local DNS/AD replica. Resolution is done via a WAN connection to the main AD controller. Print port resolution is done via DNS and clients on this remote network can resolve the printers via pinging the DNS name (as can the print server). The problems start when you try and browse to the printer through the domain, you find the site, printer and then try and connect to the printer you desire you get this error ” Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the name was typed incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost its connection to the server”.. standard error message stuff. If you type the path in \\server\printer it works fine. I have exported the configuration from AD to a text file and compared this to a working printer on another site, no obvious difference in the configuration. The only thing which is different is the absence of a local DNS/AD replica, has anyone else seen this?