Cannot print to a network printer
Hello everyone, I have a shared printer connected to a Linux box (I know this is a Windows support forum but, please, bear with me) and this printer is accessible from any computer on the network but one. I am 100% sure that everything is set up properly on the print server because all WinXP (x32 and x64), Win2000 and WinVista machines can print to it (considering WinVista, I have tested x32 only, since no x64 Vista box is present in the network). Any Linux box can print to this printer as well with no problems at all. However, there is an x64 Win7 machine that can add the printer and send it a print job, but then it starts complaining about not being able to connect to the printer and/or that there is no queuing service running (I am sorry if my translation to English isn't exactly what this service is called originally). I tried to add the printer in a variety of ways: Browse to the server through network neighbourhood, double-click it and follow the Add printer wizard. Add printer using the wizard by selecting it in the list of available network printers. Add printer manually using the wizard by typing printer's address "\\server_name\printer_name". Add printer manually using the wizard by typing printer's address "\\server_ip\printer_name". Add printer manually using the wizard by typing printer's address "http://server_name:631/printers/printer_name". Add printer manually using the wizard by typing printer's address "http://server_ip:631/printers/printer_name". Add LOCAL printer and create a new LOCAL port "\\server_name\printer_name" (or "\\server_ip\printer_name") -- it usually works, but not this time. :( All of the above methods led to the printer being added successfully, but any job sent there caused the printer to be inaccessible. Considering the Windows driver, I have always been using the WHQL one available therein (no matter the actual Windows edition that I've been printing from). What puzzles me is that the printer is accessible to such a large number (30+) of different machines running different OSs, while an x64 Win7 machine gets confused when I ask it to communicate with the printer. It seems to me that there must be something wrong with the Win7 machine, because otherwise there would be problems arising elsewhere as well. Firewall is out of the question, since printing to other shared network printers work fine (I did manually check the spool server permissions in firewall's settings as well). I have even tried to enable the LPR print monitor and LPD print service in Programs and Features -> Turn Windows features on or off -> Print and Document Services. Nothing good came out of that either... :( So, is there anything else I could try? Any help would be much appreciated. nvx
March 7th, 2011 2:03pm

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