Hello,
Have a room of pc's all on domain, one of them has a shared printer attached. I've connected to the pc's shares and installed the printer on all the pcs' and it works fine. I've also connected to that pc from other computers around the building and successfully installed the shared printer and got it to print.
Now, I have a few laptops that are not on the domain and cannot go on the domain, I connect to the computers shares fine, put in either the local admin credentails (of the pc with the shared printer attached) or the domain admin credentials, and it connects fine and shows me the shares, this shared printer being one of them. So then I double click on the shared printer and it installs fine and is available in my list of printers as a printer on another machine. When I go to print I get "access denied" or "the rpc service is not available" depending on what program I use to try and print with. Print spooler and rpc is running on both pc's the one I'm trying to print from and the one with the shared printer attached (it works anyway from the other pc's). If I unc back to the computer with the printer attached, ie \\servername and I right click on the shared printer and click connect, it now prints! Prints fine. Now, when I restart the pc it doesn't print anymore, every time I have to unc to the share and right click on the shared printer and connect to get it to work. Obviously not viable for average users.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks.
Have a room of pc's all on domain, one of them has a shared printer attached. I've connected to the pc's shares and installed the printer on all the pcs' and it works fine. I've also connected to that pc from other computers around the building and successfully installed the shared printer and got it to print.
Now, I have a few laptops that are not on the domain and cannot go on the domain, I connect to the computers shares fine, put in either the local admin credentails (of the pc with the shared printer attached) or the domain admin credentials, and it connects fine and shows me the shares, this shared printer being one of them. So then I double click on the shared printer and it installs fine and is available in my list of printers as a printer on another machine. When I go to print I get "access denied" or "the rpc service is not available" depending on what program I use to try and print with. Print spooler and rpc is running on both pc's the one I'm trying to print from and the one with the shared printer attached (it works anyway from the other pc's). If I unc back to the computer with the printer attached, ie \\servername and I right click on the shared printer and click connect, it now prints! Prints fine. Now, when I restart the pc it doesn't print anymore, every time I have to unc to the share and right click on the shared printer and connect to get it to work. Obviously not viable for average users.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks.