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
    2013-09-10T18:38:46+00:00

    You can tell it's a "rights" issue, if "Update Driver" is grayed out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-09-15T17:06:16+00:00

    I have tried the re-install printer thing and it doesn't work for me.

    What work so far is:

    run the services.msc from Start (I'm running windows 8)

    restart the "Network Connected Devices Auto-Setup"

    change the default startup type to automatic

    hope it helps...

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-09-23T20:46:31+00:00

    "disabled the Behavior Blocker on the COMODO"

    SIR....This ACTUALLY  worked...finally - thanks !

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-10-05T20:45:25+00:00

    I managed to fix this by going into the printer properties, choosing the 'ports' tab and selecting the WSD port (it was previously set to Microsoft XPS Document Writer for some reason).

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