Friday, April 9, 2010

Adding Shared Printer which is not part of domain to a system which is connected to domain

Can Not add shared printer on the system  which is connected to domain and users log in with domain id and password

When you try to add the shared printer which is connected to an system which is not part of domain, as a domain user you may get a message sayign a Policy on this system is preventing you to join the print queue
Ever got this situation?
So after some googling I found its bcoz of a default domain policy which is preventing printers to be added to system if the system is part of domain
So solution is to add this print server to the list of servers which can be available to the domain users as shared printer

To get it
Open the Group Policy Editor
Default Domain Policy
User Configuaration
     Administrative Templates
    Control Panel
   Printers
Point And Print Restriction
Add the IP address or fqdn of the shared printer system here, multiple can be added with coma separated

And thats it
On the system which is connected to domain just run gpupdate /force and refresh the group policy and then try to add the printer, it must go smooth this time

Thats all for now on this issue

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