Domain printer for domain user with workgroup pc

supag33k · Apr 23, 2007

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r.h.lee said: ↑

Stoney,

I have an HP Officejet d145 with a JetDirect Ethernet Print Server. Once upon a time, I installed the drivers onto my brother's laptop and printing worked. Then he unplugged from my network then went off to work in other networks. When he returned back home, my brother was having "printing issues." So when I tried to troubleshoot the problem, I noticed that the "HP Officejet d145" printer drivers were nowhere to be found. So I popped in the Officejet d145 driver CD into his CD-ROM drive to install the drivers again. During the HP Officejet d145 driver installation process, the HP software detected another HP printer driver and required that the other HP printer driver be uninstalled prior to the reinstallation of the Officejet d145 driver. So after the uninstallation of the "other HP printer driver" the Officejet d145 printer drivers started installing. Then once again, my brother left my network to go to work. After returning from work, once again, the same "print problem" occured with absent Officejet d145 printer driver.

So, from my experience:

It is irrelevant if he has a user account.

It is irrelevant if it's a network printer/print server or even a local printer.

It is irrelevant if the laptop is part of the domain or a workgroup.

Thanks to HP "technology" with the print driver requiring exclusive existence, there may be no practical solution to your problem that I learned "to be flexible for a non-domain laptop" to be able to print.
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Brilliant stuff Richard....note that Lexmark offer similar "benefits" also...

Stoney · Apr 24, 2007

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Just thought i'd finish this thread off by saying that the issue was resolved by adding the printer as a local printer to the contractors laptop using a TCP/IP port.

This bypasses the authentication required by the print server and allows the contractor to use the printer without needing to login first.

As for the HP conflict, he does use HP printers elsewhere but we have not experienced any issues as yet.

Thanks again for the help

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