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In my High school the network (local network with printers and file server + internet access) is using Active Directory for authentication. If I want to print/access the file servers with Ubuntu I need to authenticate against the AD. Guess I'll use Samba but how exactly do you do that? Many thanks :)
Troubleshooting these issues requires a little bit of detective work. First, check the System Log on the DC to see if there are many Printer Pruner events at the time when the printers are deleted. If there are, to determine if the problem is indeed related to the Printer Pruner verify that the domain controller has not been removed from or unable to communicate on the network for an extended period of time (replication events etc will provide clues as well). Since the Printer Pruner thread runs in the context of the Spooler service (spoolsv.exe) you also need to ensure that at least one domain controller in each site in the enterprise is running the Spooler service.
Thank you for visiting this site, where you will find useful utilities to enhance your experience while working in Windows. All of the programs have been rated 4 stars or higher by ZDNet Software Library, a leading software distribution site.Below is a brief summary of the programs. Full descriptions are in the individual program pages, where you may download a trial version. The trial versions are fully functional for 15 days after installation, and contain complete instructions on payment and registration. These instructions are also available on the How to Purchase page. For any questions please email me at gal...@nyc.rr.com. Directory Printer Print and export listings of files and directories, with many formatting options Directory Compare Compare, synchronize and manage directories Super Text Search Search files for any text, including powerful wildcard searches. In plain ASCII text files, text can be replaced. Travel Photos
by Glenn Alcott Directory Printer 4.1 Directory Printer enables you to print or export directory (folder) listings, a capability which is not provided by Windows itself. Features include:
- Print file list for single directories or entire trees. When printing trees, the number of levels of subdirectories printed can be specified.
- Choice of fields to print (long and short file name, file type, size, date/time, attributes, version information, image information, MP3 artist/title/duration, MS Word/Excel title/subject/author).
- Sort by name, extension, file type, date/time or attributes
- Prints total number and size of files.
- Option to print summary listing (subdirectories only, without files).
- Option to filter files by date.
- Print in any of three different column formats, using any available font.
- Ability to export to ASCII text, HTML, or comma-delimited files (which can be imported into word processing, spreadsheet or database programs).
- Print preview available.
- As an alternative to the regular listing, a tree view similar to the view in Windows Explorer can be printed.
- Appearance of the program can be changed by choosing one of 60 provided skins.
- M.J.; Oak Lawn, IL "I'm so happy I found this program. I've been searching all over for a utility to do this."
- C.K.; Columbus, GA "An excellent piece of software, very well done and extremely useful."
- D.N., Duluth, MN "I love this program. It's amazing that Windows doesn't include this functionality."
- L.Z., Melbourne, Australia "Great little program. I found it really useful to make CD catalogs to put inside the jewel boxes."
- H.S., Medford, MA "As far as I can tell, this program is unique. It saved me hours of work."
- B.N., Heidelberg, Germany Directory Compare 2.3 Directory Compare provides a comparison of the contents of two directories (folders) and the ability to synchronize the directories. It includes the following capabilities:
- Compare the contents of two directories, optionally including their subdirectories
- Copy and move files between the directories or to any other directory
- Delete or rename files and directories
- Open files in their associated application
- Synchronize the contents of the directories
- Print listings of the directories
- Export listings to comma-delimited or HTML files
- Get file version information
- Visually compare text and image files
- Find and delete empty subdirectories
- Save comparision specifications for later re-use
- Appearance of the program can be changed by choosing one of 60 provided skins.
Free utility simplifies folder and directory printing
Of the many freeware solutions to the problem of printing the contents of folders and directories, two stand out. The first is KarenWare's Directory Printer (which I always knew as Karen's Directory Printer, but it's the same program). I used this program years ago but have since switched to Directory List & Print from Infonautics.
Good luck finding a similar option in Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11. Several people have devised workarounds for the inability to print playlists in WMP, and there are also free programs for creating and printing CD labels (one of which I describe below). In fact, your printer may have shipped with a utility for printing CD labels.
After working in two separate engagements where Macs are in an Active Directory environment with mixed results for printer connectivity, I've come up with this solution. It's by no means perfect, but it's a step in some direction...
One might be inclined to just use whatever printers appear in the Bonjour search results but as we all know, Bonjour is a form of multicast, therefore it won't span subnets and you'll only see printers that are on the same subnet that the system is connected to. Furthermore, some of those Bonjour printers might be some user sharing out their printer connection. This no good because when the user closes up shop for the day, they take their printer connection with them and everyone who inadvertently connected to it is now without a printer connection.
Now let's throw another curve ball... let's say you have VPN... and your admins don't want to set up the required routes from the Macs in question to the printers, not to mention we're back to the multi-subnet thing. No Bonjour, DNS resolution might be janky, certain protocols and ports might be blocked... blah blah blah...
This method allows the unbound Mac to print to any printer that the Windows print server is broadcasting, regardless of subnets. VPN may still take some negotiating depending on how much of a Net Nazi the admins are. YMMV!
P.S. If you have an MFP or other printer type that has all kinds of additional options (i.e. finisher, lower paper trays, collators, etc.), you might be hard pressed to determine how to configure the -o flag for your scripts. So here's an AWESOME helper script that I found that does the heavy lifting for you...
If you're planning a new printer setup I would nearly always go for a pull printing system now. Most of the big printer vendors offer them, I've used Equitrak at quite a few sites and it really takes the pain out of it.
Directory List & Print Pro allows you to print and export directory contents. You have many filters, it can extract information from many file formats, and export to many different formats, such as Word, Excel, text, PDF, HTML and XML.
Active Directory printer-related settings can be enabled or disabled by using Group Policy settings. All Group Policy settings are contained in Group Policy Objects that are associated with Active Directory containers (sites, organizational units, and domains). This structure maximizes and extends Active Directory.
Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections: Controls whether the print spooler will accept client connections. When the policy isn't configured, the spooler won't accept client connections until a user shares out a local printer or opens the print queue on a printer connection. At this point, the spooler will start accepting client connections automatically.
Allow pruning of published printers: Determines whether the domain controller can prune (delete from Active Directory) the printers that are published by this computer. By default, the pruning service on the domain controller prunes printer objects from Active Directory if the computer that published them doesn't respond to contact requests. When the computer that published the printers restarts, it republishes any deleted printer objects.
Automatically publish new printers in the Active Directory: By default, this setting is turned on. It can be turned off so that only shared printers that are selected are put in the directory.
Custom Support URL in Printers folder's left pane: This policy bit is designed for administrators to add customized support URLs for the server. If this bit isn't selected, the navigation pane of the Printers folder displays URLs for selected printer plus a vendor support URL if it's available. If this bit is selected and the customized support URL is provided, the previously mentioned two support URLs are replaced by the customized URL. The default isn't selected, which means no customized support URL.
Computer Location: Specifies the default location criteria that are used when searching for printers. This setting is a component of the Location Tracking feature of Windows printers. To use this setting, enable Location Tracking by enabling the Pre-populate printer search location text setting. When Location Tracking is enabled, the system uses the specified location as a criterion when users search for printers. The value that you type here overrides the actual location of the computer that is conducting the search.
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