Print Server not found with DHCP

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frut02

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Hi,

I am having an issue with priniting on my network, for some time the all of my printers were installed on the domain controller, i found that on random machines printers could not be mapped, to fix this i found that giving the computer a static ip helped and i could then map the printers (and access the domain controller through explorer), i was hoping that when i moved the printers over to there new server which is a dedicated server just for printing that the peoblem may go away, but alas it hasnt, some machines work fine , but some will not, and the only fix i have found is giving it a static IP which i really dont want to do.....any ideas?:(

All of the servers are 2003/ and printers are all HP

Thanks
Nick
 
what is the server running ...OS
what are the w/s's running
do you have any firewalls?
 
Servers are windows 2003, and clients are all XP


Windows Firewall is off, symantec endpoint has a firewall i think but all the servers are let through plus the fact that one machine will work and the one next to it wont and they are completely the same!
 
Yes
A) they have to have static IP's
B) They HAVE to be on the domain.
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Ofcourse i know this hence the reason i asked! If he hasn't got these it isn't going to work, obviously.
 
All of the machines are on the domain, we just have the one domain that uses the same subnet. all of the printers have static IP address's otherwise it would not work :)

I'm currently making my new image machines so i want them perfect but the one i need to image has this problem and i don't want to give it a static IP address otherwise I will have to go around and change it once all the machines are imaged.

Its Puzzling me as i cant see anything in the dhcp/dns stuff have flushed them as well.

Need to get it sorted as have 83 new machines coming today which all need to be imaged

Thanks

Nick
 
Ok, i found that it works if i try to go to its ip address it \\10.164.xx.xx but cant get it to find it using its name (which all of the scripts use to map the printers)
 
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