Internet printing

Mikdilly

Wondered if anyone has setup internet printing, making way thru mspress book and tried setting it up on domain controller, installed internet printing, enabled internet printing web extension in iis. Tried iisreset. Try to go to http://server_name/printers and get 'http error 404 - file or directory not found.' Seems like I've done everything the book says to get this running, is there something else missing?

Essendon

Appears that Internet Printing is disabled in the Group Policy setting.

Go to Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Printers. Look for Web-based Printing. Set this to Enabled.

Mikdilly

Go to Computer Configuration> Administrative Templates> Printers. Look for Web-based Printing. Set this to Enabled.

Enabled in gpo, did a gpupdate. Tried website again and still get same error.

dynamik

Try running through this to make sure you have everything configured correctly: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323428

Mikdilly

Try running through this to make sure you have everything configured correctly: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323428

Thanks, in looking at the steps I think I see my error, is it a requirement to put a final '/' at the end of htttp://server_name/printers? It probably is as printers is a folder and not a file. But then the error says 'file or directory not found.'
Will try it out, thanks again.

dynamik

That shouldn't matter.

Do you have any printers installed?

File and print services?

Mikdilly

Yes, at least 3 printers are installed and shared.

Domain controller has a role as a print server.

undomiel

Seems more like a IIS problem. Check where the virtual directory is directing to and see if it is correct.

sprkymrk

Any intervening firewalls or routers with ACL's?

sprkymrk

dynamik wrote:

That shouldn't matter.

It might matter. If you go to htttp://server_name/printers, IIS will look for a file named printers.html or printers.htm or whatever file you have configured as default in IIS.

dynamik

Dammit Mark. Now I just feel like you're picking on me

This is going through the steps in the MS Press book, and he's getting a 404 error.

undomiel

Actually I'll have to side with dynamik on this, sprkymrk. Disabling the default document and going to http://server/printers will result in it just attempting to list the directory since IIS will recognize printers as a valid virtual directory attempt first and not as an attempt to access a printers file in the root. I just tested it out to confirm as well.

Mikdilly

No firewalls or routers, it's all a local network in vmware using virtual switch and i'm using a browser on the domain controller.

Not sure what is meant by 'Check where the virtual directory is directing to and see if it is correct.'

undomiel

Open up IIS and check under Default Web Site and you should see a Printers virtual directory. Check the properties on that and it will display where it is pointing to.

Mikdilly

Properties of Printers virtual directory has a local path to c:\windows\web\printers.

Adding the '/' to the end of the url didn't make a difference, same error.

Within IIS, i opened up Web Sites, 2 were listed Default and Contoso, Default was stopped, Contoso was running, trying to start Default brought up an error saying 'iis was unable to start the site. Another site may be using the port you configured for this site.' They're both using port 80. Stopping Contoso then allowed Default to start and the /printers site then opened up.

The book didn't say anything about 2 sites running at the same time, might have been a little helpful, but then it doesn't even offer an exercise in setting up internet printing.
Just curious, is internet printing used much in the real world, seems like an interesting feature in 2003, my company is still using Novell print queues.

astorrs

I've never seen it implemented in the corporate world.

sprkymrk

undomiel wrote:

Actually I'll have to side with dynamik on this, sprkymrk. Disabling the default document and going to http://server/printers will result in it just attempting to list the directory since IIS will recognize printers as a valid virtual directory attempt first and not as an attempt to access a printers file in the root. I just tested it out to confirm as well.

I don't have the book he is using. By default, "Enable Default Document" is selected. If the lab he is using specifically states to uncheck "Enable Default Document" then it won't make a difference. My point was more a general comment that it "might". Don't forget other things can come into play (in the real world vs this specific issue) such as permissions - if the user does not have the permission to list the directory, he'll get an error. I have seen this happen many times. It can result in a 403 error if you leave off the actual html file in the address bar.

sprkymrk

Mikdilly wrote:

Just curious, is internet printing used much in the real world, seems like an interesting feature in 2003, my company is still using Novell print queues.

I've never personally seen it used.