Printer deployment on Server 2008 R2 has me baffled...

[PhireSide]

Guys.

I am resorting to asking here for assistance as my Google-fu has failed me.

I have a domain that I manage at a high school, and they have recently gotten a lot of new equipment. I am running a Domain Controller (Server 2008 R2) and a Windows Server Update Services server (Server 2008 R2) on my host server in Hyper-V configuration. I also have two identical NComputing servers running and I have everything joined to a domain.

I have everything set up as it should work, except my printers. I cannot for the love of me get the deployment to work correctly. I followed various guides on the net but they basically all have the same main idea:

1 - Make sure Print Services is installed on the DC
2 - Install printer to DC (it is installed via an IP address)
3 - Share printer on network
4 - install 32 and 64 bit drivers on server so that all clients can access it
5 - Set Point and Print Permissions in the Group Policy Object so that the remote machines are allowed to add the print drivers when the policy is enforced.
6 - Deploy the printer via the GPO

I have followed everything to a T but I still cannot see my deployed printer. I ran gpresult /r on the target machine and it shows that the policy applied correctly. No errors. But the printer will not show

Anyone have some sage advice for me asseblief? Something that I am maybe overlooking?

 

[Wong]

@wabbit what OS are the clients using ?

 

[PhireSide]

Hey Wong...I actually got it sorted last night.

The problem was that I needed to set the Print and Point Permissions on the Ncomputing servers as well. It seems logical now, as the servers that handle the RDP sessions did not have the policy object enabled that allows it to discreetly install the drivers from the Domain Controller. I hope this advice can save someone else the hassle