Mar 18, 2010  I am working on a projct to add a dozen Windows 7 64 bit HP Printer and Copier print drivers to a Server 2003 32 bit print server. All of these. Add Win 7 64-bit drivers to 32-bit Print Server. I have a Window 2003 32-bit print server. I am trying to add Win 7 64-bit drivers to a printer share. One of the issues I saw, is where the printer drivers for both OS's have to be named the same. Ok I already have the shared printer on the windows 2003 server. I simply want to add.

This is in continuation of the topic discussed by John Dickson in his blog post entitled Installing Windows Vista Print Drivers on Windows Server 2003 With advancing technology and increasing demand for resources, many enterprises are now opting for 64-bit operating systems on their servers. The OS on the client machines could be either 32-bit or 64-bit depending in the customer’s environment and requirements. We are specifically dealing with Print server in this article. When we deploy a 64-bit print server which is to cater to 32-bit clients, usually the clients use the point and print functionality to connect to the desired print queue on the print server and drivers are mapped. This requires the 64-bit print server to have 32-bit printer drivers installed. Following are the steps to install 64-bit printer drivers on a 32-bit server. We will also discuss a common issue that we see during installation.

(I’ll also be enumerating the steps implemented vice-versa i.e. Installing 64-bit printer drivers on a 32-bit server) Note: must be enabled. Installing 64-bit printer drivers on a 32-bit server: Local Method: 1. Go to the Printers and Faxes folder. Windows 7 Pro Oa Sea Hp Download Drivers.

Go to the properties of the print queue for which you intend to add the x64 driver. Go to the Sharing tab and choose Additional Drivers. Choose x64 as the processor type and click OK.

When prompted, point to the location of the x64 driver. This should install the additional x64 drivers required for the x64 clients to print through the x86 servers. You can also perform the above steps remotely from another machine by connecting to the print server using the UNC path and then browsing to the Printers and Faxes folder. Another option is to install the driver remotely using the Add Driver wizard. To do this: 1. Logon to the 64-bit server with an Administrator account.

This account has to have administrative privileges on the 32-bit print server as well. Connect to the print server using the UNC path ( Start ->Run ->32BitPrintServer) 3. You should see the Printers and Faxes folder. Open this folder 4. Go to File–>Server Properties ->Drivers tab and choose Add Driver.

Using this option add the required driver by choosing the appropriate architecture type. Note: When you add the driver directly it doesn’t check if the driver matches the existing x86 version.

If it does not the clients may not be able to download the driver and print successfully. See the section on Issues for details. A great scenario to use the remote install option is when you don’t have the OEM version of the x64 driver available or if you prefer to install the inbox drivers instead. When you install remotely by connecting through UNC, it first looks for the driver in the local driver store. If available, it will install the driver without any further prompts. Only if an inbox driver is not available will it prompt for the driver location. You can also take advantage of this method to install inbox 32-bit drivers, where the print server doesn’t have an inbox driver for the printer, but a later version of the OS has the required drivers inbuilt.

Driver Epson Lq 2500 Xposed. Installing 32 Bit printer drivers on a 64 Bit server: Login using a domain administrator account to a 32 bit machine. On any one of the clients machine running 32-bit OS Access the print server Open the printer required to add the 32-bit driver Go to properties ->Sharing Tab ->Additional drivers Check the box with appropriate architecture type. In this case it is nothing but using the same steps as in the x64 driver scenario, but in this case the additional driver we will be adding will be a 32bit driver. Common Issues seen while installing a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit server and vice versa. 1) Option to choose OS architecture i.e. X64 could be grayed out.