Smackre

Server: Windows server std 2008

Client: Windows XP Pro SP3

Printer: HP Laserjet 3055

I am running Quickbooks for 5 computers off the server using remote app. Everything is going good but I am having trouble with redirecting the client printers onto the server. Weird thing is that all my windows 7 pc's work flawlessly. But my windows xp pc's don't work at all. I click print and it shows the printer I want. I hit print to send it to the printer and it acts like its working. Just to have the printer do nothing. Also it doesnt error out or anything. Just nothing.

So is there something different in XP than in 7. Because my windows 7 pc's go good. But I don't want to upgrade right now just because of this little problem.

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Vigilante

Did you install the printer as a share, or locally? If as a share, try installing locally instead, then point them to the printer. I say this because it almost sounds like XP is trying to install and run off 2008 printer drivers, which will most likely fail. Works great for win7 of course, because win7 is basically 2008 R2

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Smackre

So you think it aint working because the windows xp driver is not compatiable with windows server 08? So how do I go about installing the windows 7/server 08 driver on the xp machines?

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Vigilante

OOOOOOOOOOH, I read it wrong. I was thinking the server has the printer. That's how my old job was set up and I just defaulted....

My bad.

Hell, I don't know then.

Explain exactly what machine has the printer. What OS, physical location compared to the others, etc. Is this site-to-site? Local LAN?

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Smackre

The computer with the printer:
Windows XP Pro SP3. On the same local lan as the server. loging on to the server remotely. When it connects remotely its suppose to redirect the printer from the physical machine to the software you are running on the server. Well it does. But when you click on print you get nothing. Unless your running windows 7 in which it runs perfectly.

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17 inch UltraSharp™ Wide Screen XGA+ Display
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz 2 Dimm
256MB NVIDA® GeForce™ Go 6800

Vigilante

I'm going to assume the printer is shared at the XP box, and this is not running directly through your software only. If not, share it.

If you want to keep things as they are, make sure the printer is installed on the server, as a network printer. Make sure there isn't some firewall action going on as well (just a troubleshooting tip).

My advice would be this:
If the printer is USB/parallel then physically install it on the server, where the software actually runs. Share it over the network and have your workstations connect to that.

If it is a network/TCPIP printer, then have it installed on the server and share it, and have the workstations connect to it. Either way, the server controls the printer and has all the libraries/DLLs needed to control this device. Everything else depends on the server, as they should.

Using a workstation as a print server is never good, and will always lead to trouble. This is the hodge-podge way of networking, and it needs to become more formal.

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