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Thursday, December 10, 2015 2:51 PM
Hey Guys,
Not sure if this is the right place for this question but here goes... We have about 800 users but 500 of them are traveling/ work from home users and are not joined to the domain. Because of this when they update their AD User password (web based system) their saved credentials need to be updated if they should go into an office or connect to the VPN for file share / printer access.
This is easy enough for us but some of them just don't get it. We use DFS and Namespaces to organize our file shares into \domain.com\Data\etc... so for file shares if we just update the credentials for \domain.com all is well for all the office shares. The issue is printers... the printers are deployed in each office under \server\printer name. SO they have to update their credentials for each office they go to in order to print. Some of these guys travel to offices enough to have to update a few but not enough to join them to the domain.
Domain joined laptops work file as login credentials are used for all company resources. We'd like to add the printers to the namespace so they appear to be located at \domain.com (all our office file servers are namespace servers... so the WAN isn't used)
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Ernst.
All replies (4)
Friday, December 11, 2015 8:14 AM ✅Answered
Hi Ernst,
As far as I know, it is not support adding printers to DFS namespace.
For more information about DFS, please refer to the link below:
I have test in my lab. I have installed printer server with DFS server in DC environment and without DC environment, founded that DFS didn’t show any shared printer.
So, I’m afraid you could update the credentials for shared printers manually.
Best regards,
Andy_Pan
Friday, December 11, 2015 10:27 PM ✅Answered
We'd love to join them all... the issue is that they stay away from offices so much that every time they come back in they have a trust issue with the domain and cannot log in.
We services for printing??
Ernst
Office365/SharePointOnline or similar cloud services would probably assist, this gets your people away from the branch file server and DFS problem, both your office-workers and your remote-workers, and you don't need to worry about DFS at all any more ;)
For print, Windows Server has long offered IPP, and continues to do so. IPP also caters for non-Windows clients (like Mac and Linux).
There are also non-Microsoft (third party) solutions which use IPP/LPR (as well as SMB/RPC).
We implemented uniFLOW and are using it in various ways.
You may wish to research IPP, there is documentation on TechNet for it, and, there is a dedicated print forum here too.
Don [doesn't work for MSFT, and they're probably glad about that ;]
Friday, December 11, 2015 8:39 AM
Why not domain-join the PC's?
We do this for all our PC's including thousands of telecommuters and teleworkers.
Or, you could consider adopting modern web services for file/print instead of SMB/CIFS/DFS/branch servers..?
Don [doesn't work for MSFT, and they're probably glad about that ;]
Friday, December 11, 2015 11:57 AM
We'd love to join them all... the issue is that they stay away from offices so much that every time they come back in they have a trust issue with the domain and cannot log in.
We services for printing??
Ernst