Hello,
We are deploying printers using Server 2008 and Group Policy deploying to Windows 7 Pro machines. The printers are deployed per machine so any of our users can get printers depending on what room they are currently in. Everything has been working fine then we started to get reports the a few machines had no printers. I have confirmed that Group policy is working on the machines but only about 75% of the machines are mapping the printers. Every machine has the same software image on it (different IP, PC name etc).
The machines that don't map the printers are giving the following error in event viewer.
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-PrintService
Date: 15/05/2013 10:59:15
Event ID: 513
Task Category: Routing print spooler command(s)
Level: Error
Keywords: Router,Classic Spooler Event
User: [Domain]\[User]
Computer: [computer].[domain].local
Description:
Group Policy was unable to add per computer connection \\[server]\[printer]. Error code 0x704. This can occur if the name of the printer connection is incorrect, or if the print spooler cannot contact the print server.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-PrintService" Guid="{747EF6FD-E535-4D16-B510-42C90F6873A1}" />
<EventID>513</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>39</Task>
<Opcode>12</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000002800</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-05-15T09:59:15.686886400Z" />
<EventRecordID>953</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="1576" ThreadID="1584" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin</Channel>
<Computer>[compuer].[domain].local</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-3093010814-3523569038-1612450742-15176" />
</System>
<UserData>
<RouterError xmlns:auto-ns3="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="http://manifests.microsoft.com/win/2005/08/windows/printing/spooler/core/events">
<Name>\\[server]\[printer]</Name>
<Error>0x704</Error>
</RouterError>
</UserData>
</Event>
After doing as much research as I can on this, I am stumped. Has anyone else had this or have any idea how to look further into this?
Thanks,
Dave