Windows server 2008 print server snmp

Like I said I have everything working, SNMP is working as it should, and I did try a random community string with letters and numbers and it worked. Most of the printers I am connecting to are HP's but some are Toshiba's.

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Learn More ». Ghost Chili. AR-Beekeeper This person is a verified professional. Verify your account to enable IT peers to see that you are a professional. I have seen slow printing when snmp is enabled on a printer. Then restart the print spooler service.

The printer will switch to Ready and start printing. Microsoft then confirmed they have comparable cases like this in their database, but no information why there are these registry keys and why they arouse this problem.

I've been searching this topic and yet to find the answer I'm looking for. Not only does this result in the printer showing offline continuosly, it doesnt even seem to be a supported configuration. If you open the advanced tab and close it without making any changes, you get a warning box that the Community name is invalid. Why then did Windows help me out and create the port using these settings? If I change the community name to public to match the printer setup, all is fine. I'd like to find a default setting somewhere and set it to public, so all new ports are created with the name set to Public, and the problem goes away.

Is there such a setting? Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Server TechCenter. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Sign in to vote. The issue: Not unique from what I have read in these forums and elsewhere around the globe. Summary: I'm going out on a limb here and suspecting that the root cause is not the device, firmware or print driver, but in fact something within Windows Server Print Subsystem.

Monday, September 5, PM. Are you using static addresses or DHCP? Ricoh has print driver delevopers in Redmond. Do you have anyway to contact this group? Alan Morris Windows Printing Team. Tuesday, September 6, PM. Hi Alan Thanks for your response. Wednesday, September 7, AM. Wednesday, September 7, PM. This is caused by the SNMP Status Enabled option under the port configuration in windows, you'll need to either disable SNMP on the port or correct the configuration to do this - Go to the ports tab in the printer properties and click configure port.

Cheers, Tim. Thursday, September 29, AM. Hi Mrfixit7, recently we had to change our public string to something else and we started to face the same problem exaclty you explain.

Restarting printer or putting snmp tick off and on again solved some of the devices' offline problem but I am still looking for a solution. Friday, January 27, PM. Proposed as answer by egr25 Wednesday, January 22, PM. Wednesday, July 18, AM. Has anyone had any luck with this issue yet? We are having the same problem with printers showing offline and the patch that Mr.

Morris gave did NOT fix the problem. I even went through all our queues almost of them and disabled SNMP and still no dice.

Tuesday, October 23, PM. I tried this to no avail. The offline status is seen only on the client PCs which are connected to the r2 print server. Only windows 7 devices are effected. Thanks again for your help. Wednesday, October 24, PM. Windows Update is typically for security exploits and driver updates Alan Morris Windows Printing Team Alan, I'm sorry to report that users that received the patch are still having printers show offline.

Thursday, October 25, PM. Hi Sheriff Andy Taylor, so your printers went offline even with bidirectional support disabled and SNMP status at port settings unchecked? I'd try: 1. Add 'Domain computers' to the queue's ACL. Check it 2. Friday, October 26, PM. Thanks, man! I pity the foo' who doesn't accept your post as an answer! Monday, March 25, PM. I was asked to check into a smaller office where printers were intermittently going "offline", HP LaserJet 's.

It's been an ongoing issues but seems to come and go, the symptoms do align almost exactly with Mr Fix It's post, however the office was not running R2. SNMP was in fact the cause and disabling it is a great workaround, however, this does remove that communication between the printers and servers. I know this post is old, but it is still helpful.

I second that Jibbajabba's post is incredibly helpful. Thursday, March 28, PM. We have Dell printers at our office and we experience the exact same issue with just about every one of them. Oddly enough, I brought one home and on my home network, it does the exact same thing.

Monday, May 13, PM.