Add Printer Not Showing Printers in Directory

[karldenton]

Hi

 

I'm looking at how our printers are published on the network and who gets what printer. When I've been using GPO Preferences I noticed that some printers are not available to publish.

 

On a client machine if you go to add a network printer only the printers that are shared on local machines are shown. The ones shared on the server are not listed, despite them been listed in the directory. I can press next and browse to \\servername and it lists all the printers no problem.

 

In order to publish them via GPO they need to be listed but I can't make the GPO at present as there not available to be added to active directory.

 

Any thoughts please ?