[geeks] Windows 7 File & Printer Sharing Nightmare

[Gaz God]

Is UAC turned off on the workstations and by off I mean properly off having
it on or partially on can cause strange connection problems with windows.
One of the best way of test this and some other windows connection features
is M$'s WMI Diagnostics:-
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ff404265.aspx. I spent over a
week once trying to solve a WMI connection to a server and UAC was the
culprit.

Don't know if that's the issue here but worth running anyway.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 07/01/2015 18:56, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> Buy a couple of cheap network printer server boxes and connect each
>> machine direct to the 'network printer's?
>>
>> If the printers are close to each other you can get boxes which can
>> manage two or more printers at the same time
>>
>
> I'd have done this long ago if it'd have been feasible but the number of
> workstations in the office precisely matches the number of wall sockets.
> The printers aren't near each other either they are in 'zones' in the
> office (basically as far as anyone can be bothered to walk to pick up their
> printing).
>
> Putting a 5-port GBit switch and a printserver on each sharing workstation
> seems excessive. Might have to do it but it still seems like OTT.
>
>
> --
>
> Mark Benson
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