You may have to do some user training. You may need to enable the local "guest" account on the server, which some might consider a risk. You might consider using something like a dedicated print server you could use Samba if you wanted to keep the cost down on the server OS with an open "guest" access like tomjedrz mentioned in his "option 3" and connections to all of the printers the students needed access to.
It's not the prettiest thing in the world, from a maintenance perspecitve, but it would keep the students from needing unhindered network access to use the printers, and wouldn't require authentication from the clients to access the printers. I work for a school system and we have run in to this problem. We used to help them add printers by IP number. But now we have put all our printers on an OSX print server.
We did the same thing when we recently hosted a conference, the attendees were able to connect to the printers in the public areas and we turned off Bonjour advertising at the print server for the printers in private spaces. Note: you do not need an OSX print server to use Bonjour. Most modern printers have it built in although doing it this way - folks will be printing straight to the printers and bypassing the print server. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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Viewed 1k times. At this point, the spooler will start accepting client connections automatically. Allow pruning of published printers: Determines whether the domain controller can prune delete from Active Directory the printers that are published by this computer.
By default, the pruning service on the domain controller prunes printer objects from Active Directory if the computer that published them doesn't respond to contact requests.
When the computer that published the printers restarts, it republishes any deleted printer objects. Automatically publish new printers in the Active Directory: By default, this setting is turned on. It can be turned off so that only shared printers that are selected are put in the directory. Check published state: Used to verify that published printers are published in Active Directory. By default, the published state isn't verified.
If this bit isn't selected, the navigation pane of the Printers folder displays URLs for selected printer plus a vendor support URL if it's available. The default isn't selected, which means no customized support URL. Computer Location: Specifies the default location criteria that are used when searching for printers.
This setting is a component of the Location Tracking feature of Windows printers. To use this setting, enable Location Tracking by enabling the Pre-populate printer search location text setting. When Location Tracking is enabled, the system uses the specified location as a criterion when users search for printers. The value that you type here overrides the actual location of the computer that is conducting the search. Type the location of the user's computer. When users search for printers, the system uses the specified location and other search criteria to find a printer nearby.
You can also use this setting to direct users to a particular printer or group of printers that you want them to use. Directory pruning interval: The pruning interval determines the period of time that the pruner sleeps between checks for abandoned PrintQueue objects.
The pruner reads the pruning interval value every hour. Directory pruning retry: Sets the number of times that the PrintQueue pruner tries to contact the print server before it deletes an abandoned PrintQueue object.
Directory pruning priority: Sets the thread priority of the pruning thread. The pruning thread runs only on domain controllers and is responsible for deleting stale printers from the directory. The default value is 0. Disallow installation of printers using kernel-mode drivers: Determines whether printers that use kernel-mode drivers may be installed on the local computer.
Kernel-mode drivers have access to system-wide memory. Therefore, poorly written kernel-mode drivers can cause stop errors. Log directory pruning retry events: Specifies whether to log events when the pruning service on a domain controller tries to contact a computer before it prunes the computer's printers. The pruning service periodically contacts computers that have published printers to verify that the printers are still available for use.
If a computer doesn't respond to the contact attempt, the attempt is retried a specified number of times, at a specified interval. The Directory pruning retry setting determines the number of times that the attempt is retried. The default value is two retries. The Directory Pruning Interval setting determines the time interval between retries. The default value is eight hours. If the computer hasn't responded by the last contact attempt, its printers are pruned from the directory.
Pre-populate printer search location text: Enables the physical Location Tracking setting for Windows printers. Use Location Tracking to design a location scheme for your enterprise and assign computers and printers to locations in the scheme. Location Tracking overrides the standard method that is used to locate and associate computers and printers.
The standard method uses a printer's IP address and subnet mask to estimate its physical location and proximity to computers. If you enable this setting, users can browse for printers by location without knowing the printer's location or location naming scheme. By default, if you enable the Group Policy Computer location setting, the default location that you entered appears in the Location field. Printer Browsing: If you enable this setting, the print subsystem announces shared printers for printer browsing.
Disable this setting if you don't want the print subsystem to add shared printers to the browse list. If this setting isn't configured, shared printers aren't added to the browse list if a Directory service is available. They're added if a Directory service is unavailable. Prune printers that are not automatically republished: This setting determines whether printers can be pruned from the directory. It's best to leave this setting unconfigured. Active directory-publishing printers in windows server Hi all, I want to ask a question with regards to publishing printers in Active directory.
If I then go to the Users and computers right click on new and select printer and enter the UNC of the device, I get a message box that says; Active Directory This printer cannot be published.
Please help. Thank you. Answered By saravanan. Active directory-publishing printers in windows server Hi, Here is an explanation and solution to your issue. Hope this will help you out.
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