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Tough one. Unable to add printer. Message: "The Directory Service is currently unavailable."

Posted: 12-17-2003, 11:08 PM
Rob Rolands
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Using a freshly installed Windows XP PC, Service Pack 1 and all windows
updates installed. Also Office 2003.

I get the message: "The Directory Service is currently unavailable.", when I
try to add a printer to my pc using he "Find a printer in the directory"
option when adding a printer.

I am an administrator of the local computer and the domain to which I am
attached.
Other Windows 2000 / XP machines can access the directory to search for
printers. There are no funny system errors in the event log. I Cant find
anything on the knowledge base.

Can you help?

Kind regards
ROB




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