Windows Home Server Printers

[philhoole]

I've been running Home Server for about a month now and it is so frustrating that I am on the verge of just throwing it away.

The whole premise of me getting it was to have a headless machine that could act as a general server for files but also as a backup device and print server.

The shared folders are not a problem.

The printer sharing aspect of it is currently useless. I first set up a printer on the server and tested it from one of the client machines and it printed perfectly. So the server was put back in its corner (headless) and now when I print to it nothing happens other than a print job is created and it just sits there.

I investigated and found that it will not print if I do not log in on the server which is the normal mode of operation. It boots to the login prompt and all the other services like media serving and folder sharing work fine but printing seemingly will not.

After logging in to the server with monitor connected I can see all my print jobs queued up and as soon as the printer is connected - They all print.

This seems a bit odd as the whole point is running without keyboard,mouse and monitor and not having to be logged in.

The printer services must be running before log on as the job is fully transfered from the client but it just will not print.

Any ideas as to how to make this work ?

Thanks

 

[miniyazz]

I know nothing about Home Server but try control userpasswords2 in the run box, to set up automatic logon.

 

[philhoole]

Thanks miniyazz - I think simply bypassing the admin logon as you suggested is the trick. Prints instantly now.

I've no idea why this should be but I'm happy as long as it works !

Now to work out why it doesn't wake my laptop up during the night to back it up...

 

[miniyazz]

Now to work out why it doesn't wake my laptop up during the night to back it up...

Heh might have to tell your laptop to allow boot from LAN adaptor, can't remember where that is though. Or just use scheduled tasks to boot the laptop of its own accord if it backs up at the same time every night.