Windows Server 2008 and macs

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Hi, I’m not sure if this is the type of question I should be asking here so if it’s not please tell me to leave and I will gladly do so.

I am having trouble printing to a Windows Server 2008 print server from macs. I have setup the printers as LPR with a queue on the server and set them up accordingly on the macs but all I get from the macs is “Copying print data” and then the printer pauses.

Has anyone had any experience with printing to a windows print server? Please let me know if I need to provide more info. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

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I have solved this issue just incase anyone was wondering. It turns out that Windows Server 2008 doesn’t actually use the “Queue Name” field as the queue name on the mac but uses the name of the printer instead. So whatever the printer is named on the Windows server is what you need to put as the queue name on the Mac. Strange but true.

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