Print Management Console on remote machine shows no printers
We found another printing issue from the forum. See details below:
You have a Windows Server 2008 R2 as printer server. You use Windows 7 as a client to remote manage the printers. You opened Printer Management Snap-in and added the printer server. But you found the printers are not showing up, drivers, forms and ports are there but no printers.
You even went ahead and turned the firewall off completely, but no luck.
The possible cause is client system (the system running Printer Management Console) does not have a DNS A record (forward lookup).
To resolve it, add a DNS A record for the system that running Printer Management Console.
Edit: Kb2506505 was published, please refer to it for more details. https://support.microsoft.com/kb/2506505
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Thanks for providing more solutions.Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I found another dimension to this type of issue. I ran into an issue similar to midnite_a, except that in our case, it was a matter of remotely managing the desired host by "hostname", instead of "IP Address". Once I connected to the remote workstation by hostname, all the areas (Drivers, Forms, Ports, Printers) became available. Hope it helps someone!Anonymous
December 17, 2010
I found this blog while researching a similar problem, but in our case, we weren't seeing anything--no drivers, forms, ports, nor printers, when it had worked a few days before, from multiple Win7 machines to multiple WS08R2 print servers and a WS03R2 print server. Turns out we had recently applied a group policy to domain computers under Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesPrinters called "Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections" and set it to disabled. The intent was to disallow printer sharing on domain computers, but it also ends up blocking the Print Managment console from working for our tech staff.Anonymous
October 17, 2011
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREPoliciesMicrosoftWindows NTPrinters] "RegisterSpoolerRemoteRpcEndPoint"=dword:00000001 restart print spoolerAnonymous
January 27, 2015
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December 07, 2015
thanks for help.i think it is happen due to setting.
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