clicking Find Printer shows error "The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable" i am on a home network

Anonymous
2010-05-21T12:33:03+00:00

When I try to "Find Printer (in MSWord, e.g.) I get the message: The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable.

I'm running Vista Ultimate (SP2) on a home network; and I'm the Administrator.

How do I make the ADDS available?

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Anonymous
2010-05-28T03:56:59+00:00

Hello Dick Bard,

Thanks for posting in the Microsoft Answers forum! To add to Lorie – One’s suggestion, please try following the steps below:

>Go to Control Panel

> Select Printers

> Right-click on Add Printer

> Select Run as Administrator

Now try to add your network printer.

Please let me know if this helps J

Adam

Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-05-05T09:48:30+00:00

    Was having this problem at my work computer. printer is on a server. did a windows update and comp restarted without asking me to actually log in. when i logged into the server properly the printer started working again. still get that error message when i hit frind printer. but it no longer seems to be an issue.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-05-06T02:00:46+00:00

    This right here works!! Thank you so very much!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-05-15T14:59:01+00:00

    I found that if I disabled the Behavior Blocker on the Commodo, that at first the printer section said no printer available, then it showed up.  I was then able to print the excel page.  Thanks for the help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-05-16T12:59:27+00:00

    Have spent the whole morning with the Microsoft Windows 7 team having been sent there by the Home Office 365 team because of this print problem. Just tried deactivating Norton 360 and my printer has started to print again!!! Thank you.

    However, what does this mean? I hope to find out sometime.

    But - Thank you Will L Library and Coach Carl

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