I have a group policy that maps shared printers from two different print queue servers. Server A hosts HP printers and has the HP UPD 5.4 driver for it's queues and Server B hosts Konica Minolta copiers with at least 8 different drivers. Both servers A and B have the x64 and x86 drivers installed for clients. The queues from Server A map with no problem, but the queues from Server B do not map. Clients' Application Logs show the following error.
I've spent almost a 3 days trying to figure this out (which is apparently not a lot compared to what others have spent). I've read a lot of technet forums and blogs, it seems lots of others havehad this issue. Their issues have been fixed by updating 'Point and Print Restrictions' to State = Disabled. I've done this but still I experience the issue (see below).
I've verified replication with repadmin /replsum and all is OK. I've also browsed to the sysvol paths on each of my DCs for this policy and all is in sync (at least by time stamp anyway).
e.g.
\\dc1\SysVol\domain.local\Policies\{3542CAED-9152-400A-A919-46D0874482B0}\\dc2\SysVol\domain.local\Policies\{3542CAED-9152-400A-A919-46D0874482B0}
\\dc3\SysVol\domain.local\Policies\{3542CAED-9152-400A-A919-46D0874482B0}
Some forums\blogs suggested the print processor to be the culprit. I've tried changing Server B's queues to use WinPrint, but still no luck. Below is my GPP setup, only the bottom Server A mapping works.
A few things that do work. 1) Manually mapping the print queues from Server B works fine. If I then disconnect the printer and run gpupdate, Server B's print queues map fine. 2) Starting from scratch on a new machine, if I use the Deploy Printer GP (user config\windows settings\deployed printers) will successfully map Server B's queues. While that is a solution, there are some features sets (i.e default printer) of GP Preferences I'd like to use.
Not sure what else to try, thanks for the help!