Hi all,
I'm not sure if this belongs in the print/fax forum or the directory services forum. I guess it could be either...
We've had a Windows Server 2008 R2 server running for a while at a branch office. We never made it a domain controller due to some old incompatible Samba servers on the network. We recently retired the last of the incompatible servers, so I promoted the Windows server to be a domain controller and global catalog, to improve performance and reduce WAN traffic to the branch office.
DCPromo was successful. DNS is working well. Users are able to authenticate, connect to shares etc. However, all of the users print queues stopped working.
We create local printer ports on our workstations that point to the shared printers on the Windows server. This gives us more flexibility, in that we can rename the queues on the workstation and create multiple queues pointing to the same printer with different preferences (e.g. B&W and Colour queues). After the DC promotion, these queues started to fail with Access Denied messages.
Users are able to browse to the printer shares and can even connect and print to them as remote printers, but when we try to create a local port that points to the share, we get access denied.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Pete