Finding Network Printers in Office XP/2003 without Active Directory

[Neil Hobbs]

I am posting this message in the hope that somebody will be able to assist me

I am currently setting up and configuring a Citrix MetaFrame XP farm on three servers running Windows 2000 Server SP4 and each of the servers have a local installation of the Office XP suite of applications. The farm exists in a Windows NT 4.0 and we don't have an installation of Active Directory. I am presently looking how to enable users to find networked printers

I would like to allow my users to be able to find and connect to various printers that are shared from a print server within the same domain, by using the 'Find Printers' option from within the 'File\Print' dialog box (the print server is running Windows 2000 Server SP3). Presently, when I open any of the Office XP applications and click the 'Find Printers' button, the application attempts to search Active Directory for available printers and this fails - as we don't have Active Directory. Is there a way in which I can reconfigure the behaviour, to allow my users to browse the network and manually install the shared printers

I have investigated the various policies that are available within the local group policies on each of the servers, but I haven't been able to find anything suitable. Is there a way that I perform this configuration

Many thanks, if anybody is able to suggest anything I would be really appreciative

Regards

Neil Hobb

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Maybe Bruce Sanderson's website will help
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm
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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

I am posting this message in the hope that somebody will be able to assist me.

I am currently setting up and configuring a Citrix MetaFrame XP farm on

three servers running Windows 2000 Server SP4 and each of the servers have a
local installation of the Office XP suite of applications. The farm exists
in a Windows NT 4.0 and we don't have an installation of Active Directory.
I am presently looking how to enable users to find networked printers.

I would like to allow my users to be able to find and connect to various

printers that are shared from a print server within the same domain, by
using the 'Find Printers' option from within the 'File\Print' dialog box
(the print server is running Windows 2000 Server SP3). Presently, when I
open any of the Office XP applications and click the 'Find Printers' button,
the application attempts to search Active Directory for available printers
and this fails - as we don't have Active Directory. Is there a way in which
I can reconfigure the behaviour, to allow my users to browse the network and
manually install the shared printers?

I have investigated the various policies that are available within the

local group policies on each of the servers, but I haven't been able to find
anything suitable. Is there a way that I perform this configuration?