Im unable to see print server shared printers when connecting to a cluster print server (2008 r2) by ip, connecting by netbios name is not the issue. For example if I click on start run and type \\printserver I can see all the printers and I can see all the shared printers and can connect to them, however when i type \\\192.168.1.111 for example I cant see shared printers. Any ideas?

Hi, I recommend that you can check the router whether its configured to dynamically assigned IP address mode. If so, when the cluster print servers IP address of lease period exceeds the time set by the router, the router would send a new IP address to the print server. Of course, at the beginning of you setup network print, Windows would be setup an option After Changing The IP address Still connect the device. As this reason, even if the printer IP address has changed, you can also connect to the printer. You can ping printer server to check you have a right IP address.

Its a static ip adsress on the server

Hi, Are you sure you type \\\192.168.1.111? If it's, you typed wrong format, you shuold type like this \\192.168.1.111

Hi, Are you sure you type \\\192.168.1.111? If it's, you typed wrong format, you shuold type like this \\192.168.1.111 Of course Im typing \\192.168.1.111 - that just an example when I type \\printeserver i can see all the printers, when i type \\192.168.1.111 i can't

Hi, Let me know if you can pingable to that printer.

Yes i can pin and cando ping -a and I get respond with the same printservername. Just another part of information: on out old regular printer server we can browse both on ip address and netbios name of the print server, on our new CLUSTER print server we can only browse base by netbios name not based on IP

Hi, First, you shuold make sure you select Enable NetBiOS over TCP/IP option as below picture show: Secondly, Disable TCP/IPv6 as following show: Thirdly, You can try to clean DNS cache-Open CMD-type ipconfig/refreshdns. Finally, try to do Print a test page and make sure the IP address in a test page is same as you provided 192.168.1.111.

Should I check those setting on the workistation or on a cluster server?

Hi, The computer that with 192.168.1.111