Just hoping someone has run into a workaround for this. I've seen it posted on many sites with no resolution yet.

ALL XP. There are 7 workstations and one server. Two printers are directly connected to the server and shared out to the workstations (no issues there). One printer is directly connected to a workstation and shared out to the rest of the users. NO MATTER THE BOOTING SEQUENCE, the server does not see the printer on the workstation until the a user on the server logs out and back in again. It does not matter if the server or the workstation with the printer attached is booted first, the results are the same. Because of this, typically, the server is booted first of course so the workstations can login to it. The workstations are all shut down everynight and in the morning when a user boots this workstation up and logs in, all of the other workstations when they bootup in the am can see ALL of the attached printer. The server is shutdown everynight too. On the server it shows up as disconnected or unavailable until a user logs in a 2nd time. Is there a way to tell the server to check for the existence of the printer attached to the workstation without logging out and backin on the server? As soon as a user logs out and back into the server, the server will see the printer attached to the workstation. The printer needs to be available on the server too at all times.

TIA,

Tracy


Any ideas?