Printer Errors

I am having problems getting my clients to print to a
networked printer. Everything was working fine, all
clients were printing, and then I re-booted the server.
Now the client documents just sit in the print queue and
eventually error out. I can successfully print from the
server. I am able to successfully ping the printer from
both server and clients. I have tried uninstalling the
printer and re-adding it from AD.

I am wondering if this has to do with the address being
dynamic instead of static. I see that when I re-booted
the server it now has a different IP address. The printer
port is configured with the printers host name though, not
the IP address. Should I be assigning a static IP address
to the printer? If so how would I do so? My
configuration is 2 nics, router, ISA as recommended.

Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks,
Don

Les
Sat Oct 25 15:36:03 CDT 2003

Hi Don,

Generally, you don't want printers to change ip's.

In a default sbs dhcp implementation, the first 10 ip's in the range are
reserved. The sbs takes one of them. The balance can be utilized for things
like printers, with fixed ip's. If you fix your printer's ip to one of
these, then you won't have to worry about another device getting assingned
that particular ip.

Alternately, and perhaps a better solution, is to create a reservation (by
mac address), reserving a particular ip for the printer. Do this in the dhcp
mmc.

--
Les Connor [SBS MVP]
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SBS Rocks !



"Don" <DonBaril@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am having problems getting my clients to print to a
> networked printer. Everything was working fine, all
> clients were printing, and then I re-booted the server.
> Now the client documents just sit in the print queue and
> eventually error out. I can successfully print from the
> server. I am able to successfully ping the printer from
> both server and clients. I have tried uninstalling the
> printer and re-adding it from AD.
>
> I am wondering if this has to do with the address being
> dynamic instead of static. I see that when I re-booted
> the server it now has a different IP address. The printer
> port is configured with the printers host name though, not
> the IP address. Should I be assigning a static IP address
> to the printer? If so how would I do so? My
> configuration is 2 nics, router, ISA as recommended.
>
> Any help would be appreciated...
> Thanks,
> Don