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Windows Server General. Sign in to vote. Having installed both the x64 and x86 HP Universal Printer drivers, I now want to ensure that a created shared printer uses both of these driver types so that I can share this out to both types of Clients in the network. I've opened up Printers and Devices in Windows Server with a domain administrator account the same used to build and configure the roles on the server , and in the properties of the Printer that I've created for a network share the 'additional drivers' box is entirely greyed out.

There seems to be no means to make it active. What gives? Google has not been of any help on this one. Dale Unroe. Thursday, February 7, PM. I'm pretty sure you have to manage drivers with the Print Management snap-in. Saturday, February 16, PM. Wednesday, March 6, PM.

I am also experiencing this issue. Monday, March 18, AM. Tuesday, March 19, AM. Alan, Thanks for the input. Not sure you've clarified anything with your statements above. Tuesday, March 19, PM. Wireshark doesn't show any issues with communication to the print server. We can clearly see the client send an OpenPrinterEx request, it gets the expected response from the server, and then the client inexplicably sends a ClosePrinter Request. The client and the server repeat this several times before it fails.

The errors we receive pop-up almost instantaneously. Check the printer name and try again. If this is a network printer, make sure the printer is turned on, and that the printer address is correct. When attempting to install by opening Printers and scanners and selecting "Add a printer or scanner", we get the error: We can't install this printer right now.

Try again later or contact your network administrator for help. The Error 14 doesn't seem to be valid error that I can find? Attachments: Up to 10 attachments including images can be used with a maximum of 3. Nothing is working for me though. Network Printer is visible to Add Printer. But it just would not connect to it. All sharing options are as it is. But I can't see them anywhere when I go to Uninstall panel. I have, like many below, just spent three days uninstalling and reinstalling my printers trying to fixing this issue.

For three days I have received other peoples email just so that they can print their attachments etc. I finally found this email trail stating that KB causes the issue. I have uninstalled this from my machine and 'hey-presto' my printers work! But the story does not end there - I have automatic updates on to keep my machine up-to-date and secure also to keep IT happy and last night my machine and others rebooted with an automatic update and the patch is back and we can no longer print!

I have just started the uninstalling on our machines and get a cup of coffee. Please install windows update KB It will resolve all issues. I had a similar problem. We finally figured this out. There was an update KB that fixed the inability to add printers. Impacted machines must have missed previous version updates, for whatever reason and were failing with the below error on the MpPrintFlt. Updating Defender to the latest platform version 4.

This is the last method I've tried after all the uninstalling and installing of Specific patch,cumulative,security or whatsoever update is needed to make this printer sharing on network to be connected to the server host where the printer is installed and been shared. But its sad to say that I still dealing with it until now since last October first week.

The credentials supplied are not sufficient to access this printer. Do you want to specify new credentials? Related Reading. January 10, December 29, Tuzo February 22, - am Thank you! This is the answer to this irritating problem.

Melissa April 30, - am Hi, I followed these steps with me before, but after an update on Win 10 yesterday, i couldnt print anything and when im about to create a new local port this error show: logon failure: unknown user name or password.

Matt October 5, - am Thank you so much…. Gernot Leusch December 10, - pm Thank you very much for your detailed instruction! Rick Winter July 20, - pm Outstanding! Thanks much. Andrej Pirman September 24, - am Excellent! Abu fathiya October 11, - am Very good and thanks for the help. Ron S. December 11, - pm This is one of the best help articles for XP to 10 printing there is, worked like a champ, even with having to use a net use LPT1 command for an old DOS program.

That Worked!!!!! Thank you very much for your help. NET Framework separately. NET Framework 3. Group Policy must be correctly set to enable Easy Print on the Server. Thanks for the reply. As I said in my initial post, I have already installed the specific drivers for the the specific printer on both the client PC and the server.

However, I did notice today that the Easy Print driver is taking precidence over my installed driver, so Easy Print is definately a problem. The Group Policy changes do not seem to be having any effect. I certainly have not been able to find ANY information on Microsoft's website on the proper way to configure and set up a Win R2 server in a standalone workgroup configuration. The printer driver from the maker must be used, as this printer also controls the cash drawer on the POS cash register.

If you could point me to documentation to turn off Easy Print, that would be very helpful. I appreciate your solution. Office Office Exchange Server.

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