{"id":1323,"date":"2013-03-08T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1323"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:39:41","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T10:39:41","slug":"network-deployed-printers-are-not-appearing-in-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1323","title":{"rendered":"Network Deployed Printers are not appearing in Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Issue.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1324\" alt=\"The large amount of printers are missing\" src=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Issue.png\" width=\"502\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Issue.png 628w, https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Issue-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a few days I&#8217;ve found that printers that have been published in Active Directory (from our 2008 R2 printer server) were not appearing in the directory or find printers tabs (see above). With about 120 printers deployed and only 5 showing up there had to be something wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out the Printer Service was starting before the Server service which was causing a whole load of Errors in event log with error <strong>Event 315, PrintService<\/strong> being logged.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The printer spooler failed to share printer &lt;printer name&gt; with shared resource name &lt;printer share name&gt; Error 2114. The printer cannot be used by others on the network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The fix<\/strong> in this case was to <strong>restart the Server service<\/strong> (and if the printers do not appear for a few minutes in directory <strong>restart the Printer Spooler service<\/strong> as well).<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>reasoning<\/strong> behind this is the server service was starting up after the printer spooler service; because of this the printer service was trying to share out the printers and couldn&#8217;t (because the server service needs to be running to do this). A simple reboot of the whole server wouldn&#8217;t fix this as the same could just happen again where the services start up in the wrong order.<\/p>\n<p>More details can be seen in the screen shots below.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few days I&#8217;ve found that printers that have been published in Active Directory (from our 2008 R2 printer server) were not appearing in the directory or find printers tabs (see above). With about 120 printers deployed and only 5 showing up there had to be something wrong. As it turns out the Printer Service was starting before the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=1323\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[126,172],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","category-software","tag-active-directory","tag-printer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1323\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1323"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=1323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}