# Printing weirdness **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [July 16, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162 "2013-07-16T00:41:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 12:41am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/1 "2013-07-16T00:41:25Z")
Anyone know why a printer deployed by GPO would work fine for some machines that have it and give an error and not print for others? The error is one that indicates a faulty/incorrect/bad driver, but like I said, other people can print to this printer just fine. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/2 "2013-07-16T01:01:04Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > Anyone know why a printer deployed by GPO would work fine for some > machines that have it and give an error and not print for others?[/color] It’s upset you aren’t using iPrint. – Does this washcloth smell like chloroform? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 1:01am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/3 "2013-07-16T01:01:58Z")
Joseph Marton sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Stevo wrote: > [color=green] > > > Anyone know why a printer deployed by GPO would work fine for some > > machines that have it and give an error and not print for others?[/color] > > It’s upset you aren’t using iPrint.[/color] So my response to Joseph’s comment is… Oh believe me, that bothers me as well. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/4 "2013-07-16T05:11:35Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > Anyone know why a printer deployed by GPO would work fine for some > machines that have it and give an error and not print for others? > > The error is one that indicates a faulty/incorrect/bad driver, but > like I said, other people can print to this printer just fine.[/color] What’s the difference between the machines? Based on the error message my first thought is 64bit drivers vs. 32bit OS or vice-versa. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:00am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/5 "2013-07-16T07:00:25Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > Oh believe me, that bothers me as well.[/color] Starting tomorrow it won’t have to bother you any more. – Does this washcloth smell like chloroform? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/6 "2013-07-16T07:46:01Z")
in the meantime this might help you out on the client machine with the problem, open control panel and go to admin tools - print management and expand print servers where you should see the local machine remove the drive for the problem printer from the local machine, then remove the connection to the printer and readd it i’ve had similar issues with printers not working on machine even with iprint until I remove the driver from the local print server driver store and reconnect to it ## – gleach1 gleach1’s Profile: [https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=934](https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=934) View this thread: [https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=468220](https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=468220) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/7 "2013-07-16T13:26:01Z")
Hey Stevo, Gotta see the humor here… you are asking for M$ support in a Novell forum 😉 Cheers, ## – Laura Buckley Technical Consultant IT Dynamics, South Africa [http://www.itdynamics.co.za](http://www.itdynamics.co.za) laurabuckley’s Profile: [https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=122](https://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=122) View this thread: [https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=468220](https://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=468220) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/8 "2013-07-16T20:04:10Z")
Joseph Marton sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Stevo wrote: > [color=green] > > > Oh believe me, that bothers me as well.[/color] > > Starting tomorrow it won’t have to bother you any more.[/color] So my response to Joseph’s comment is… Why will not not bother me anymore starting today? – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/9 "2013-07-16T20:04:44Z")
Scott Campbell sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > What’s the difference between the machines? > > Based on the error message my first thought is 64bit drivers vs. 32bit > OS or vice-versa.[/color] So my response to Scott’s comment is… Both are windows 7 64 bit machines, only difference is the one that works is physical, the ones that don’t are virtual. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/10 "2013-07-16T20:17:33Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > Why will not not bother me anymore starting today?[/color] Because our iPrint appliance is available starting today and can be leveraged in an AD-only environment! [http://www.novell.com/iprint](http://www.novell.com/iprint) – Does this washcloth smell like chloroform? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 8:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/11 "2013-07-16T20:29:29Z")
laurabuckley sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Hey Stevo, > > Gotta see the humor here… you are asking for M$ support in a Novell > forum 😉 > > Cheers,[/color] So my response to laurabuckley’s comment is… Well I can’t ask for Novell support in here. Figure folks in here are pretty d\*\*n smart, so they should be able to help. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 8:30pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/12 "2013-07-16T20:30:24Z")
Joseph Marton sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Because our iPrint appliance is available starting today and can be > leveraged in an AD-only environment! > > [http://www.novell.com/iprint](http://www.novell.com/iprint)[/color] So my response to Joseph’s comment is… What type of licensing does that require? We are only going to have Groupwise licensing eventually… ☹ – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/13 "2013-07-16T21:52:13Z")
Stevo wrote: [color=blue] > What type of licensing does that require? We are only going to have > Groupwise licensing eventually… :-([/color] It requires iPrint licensing. You definitely don’t need to license OES to use this. And if you don’t need mobile printing right now, which the appliance offers, you can license just desktop printing in the appliance. – Does this washcloth smell like chloroform? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 10:35pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/14 "2013-07-16T22:35:44Z")
Joseph Marton sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > It requires iPrint licensing. You definitely don’t need to license > OES to use this. And if you don’t need mobile printing right now, > which the appliance offers, you can license just desktop printing in > the appliance.[/color] So my response to Joseph’s comment is… Not sure I can talk my boss into adding licensing cost, that was the big reason he wanted to move to ad, since we were told we needed m$ cals anyway for one application. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:38pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/15 "2013-07-16T23:38:23Z")
> Anyone know why a printer deployed by GPO would work fine for some[color=blue] > machines that have it and give an error and not print for others? > > The error is one that indicates a faulty/incorrect/bad driver, but like > I said, other people can print to this printer just fine.[/color] fdisk ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:39pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/16 "2013-07-16T23:39:48Z")
[color=blue] > Hey Stevo, > > Gotta see the humor here… you are asking for M$ support in a Novell > forum ;)[/color] It’s because he knows he’s more likely to receive an appropriate answer, not, “Do you have the latest drivers?” or “Reboot.” ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/17 "2013-07-16T23:43:31Z")
> Both are windows 7 64 bit machines, only difference is the one that[color=blue] > works is physical, the ones that don’t are virtual.[/color] That’s a pretty big difference actually and sounds like policy is being enforced differently or ignored. Does the policy do checking based on hardware? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/18 "2013-07-17T00:35:34Z")
GofBorg sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > That’s a pretty big difference actually and sounds like policy is > being enforced differently or ignored. Does the policy do checking > based on hardware?[/color] So my response to GofBorg’s comment is… Policy is set to deploy printers on the computer portion, no hardware checking. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162/19 "2013-07-17T00:35:56Z")
GofBorg sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > It’s because he knows he’s more likely to receive an appropriate > answer, not, “Do you have the latest drivers?” or “Reboot.”[/color] So my response to GofBorg’s comment is… Exactly! – Stevo ---
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GofBorg sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > fdisk[/color] So my response to GofBorg’s comment is… Hahahahaha!!! Haven’t seen that one in a while. Believe me, I’d like to, especially to the printers…if that were possible. – Stevo [Next page](https://forums.suse.com/t/printing-weirdness/24162.md?page=2)