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
    2016-02-16T00:43:51+00:00

    Thank you for the information it was most helpful and I am now sitting here with my Excel document printed out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-19T17:48:26+00:00

    This does not work.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-15T19:11:10+00:00

    Exactly. On Windows 10 also there is no right click option. Nothing happens with a right click

    This is such an old issue now and still nothing from the moneymakers at Microsoft

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-04-01T16:45:27+00:00

    Nothing has worked for me - I have tried all these options (and more) and still I have no printing facility from my laptop.  All wireless communications seem to have been severed with the main desk computer so, although I have internet access via the same router, I can no longer access shared documents on the other computer, nor even see that computer in the network centre.  It's crazy - it just happened out of the blue with no changes since the last time it was all working.

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