I have someone who is trying to send a Print command in an elevated command prompt window to a printer that is defined and shared on a 2008 R2 print server on a 2008R2 Domain. The printer works otherwise for word/excel documents.
the command is Print /D:\\server\printershare drive:\filename
message is: Unable to initialize device on \\server\printershare.
The printers are not deployed via group policy. Exception granted via firewall exeption for the print.exe in windows\system32 which appears first in path statement.
Would the client be using the sysWOW64 version of print.exe?
If I have another domain that was upgraded from 2003, and print works in that domain, besides firewalling, would the SMB come into play?
