I tried this procedure and the problem remained, so I reversed it.
What did work for me was:
1. Open the printer window.
2. Instead of clicking on the "Add Printer" icon, right click on the blank
space in the window.
3. Select "Run As Administrator" and "Add Printer" from the sub menus.
Everything has worked fine with that technique.
I appreciate the other suggestion, Dan. It introduced me to gpedit.
--
--Jim
"Dan [MSFT]" wrote:
> Alright, we're going to try a different solution here. There's a known
> issue in the Active Directory search that is likely the problem you're
> hitting (thanks everyone who sends in crash information).
>
> I'm going to instruct you on how to use policies to turn off the AD search
> so that the affected code doesn't run on your machine. We're currently
> evaluating a fix for this for SP1 (sorry, can't promise anything) so with a
> little luck folks won't continue hitting this for long.
>
> Here's what do do on the machine that is running the Add Printer wizard.
> 1) Open a command prompt (Start \ All Programs \ Accessories \ Command
> Prompt)
> 2) Start gpedit (type in gpedit & hit enter). This may require an elevation
> (the UAC dialog). Accept this.
> 3) Navigate to Local Computer Policy \ Computer Configuration \
> Administrative Templates \ Printers
> 4) Find the entry named "Add Printer wizard - Network scan page (Managed
> network)" & double click it to open.
> 5) Select Enabled
> 6) In the entry for "Number of directory printers" set this to 0.
> 7) Click OK & close gpedit
> 8) From the command line run "gpupdate". This can take several minutes to
> run.
> 9) The Add Printer wizard will not run the AD search on the net search page,
> which should prevent the crash.
>
> If you want to select a printer that was published to the active directory
> you can use one of two methods:
> 1) The old active directory search should still work.
> a) On the network search page, click "The printer I want isn't listed"
> b) Select "Find a printer in the directory, based on location or
> feature" on the next page. This search should continue to work.
> 2) You can always enter these printers directly by their names.
> a) On the network search page, click "The printer I want isn't listed"
> b) Select "Select a shared printer by name" and type in the name, for
> example "\\computername\printername"
>
> Let me know if this solves your problem. And keep sending crash logs, they
> are very useful.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> "Hugh G. Johnson" <hughgjohnsonBLAHBLAH@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:uHE$1ZRfHHA.2216@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Dan,
> >
> > thank you for your response. Unfortunately I can't really follow these
> > directions. What computer am I supposed to do this from? The SBS03 box, or
> > my Vista box? These instructions seem a bit dated. Sorry for being so
> > dense. I'm a SBSer, not a rocket scientist. :-)
> >
> > Hugh,
> >
> >
> > "Dan [MSFT]" <djanni@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23sFYJcFfHHA.4552@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >> Can you try adding a location for your subnet/site. Instructions can be
> >> found at:
> >> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...ation_lite.htm
> >>
> >> Let me know if it solves the problem or not.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dan
> >>
> >> "Donant" <Donant@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:646E405C-FAB4-42EB-8298-032825E985F9@microsoft.com...
> >>> Same problem for me. Exactly the same.
> >>>
> >>> Donant
> >>>
> >>> "Hugh G. Johnson" wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I've seen other people have this problem, but didn't find a way to
> >>>> resolve
> >>>> this.
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm running Vista Ult on a SBS03 domain. When I click add network
> >>>> printer I
> >>>> get a dialog box saying windows explorer has quit and is restarting
> >>>> which it
> >>>> does, then the printer control panel is gone and nuttin'. No dialog box
> >>>> to
> >>>> send a crash report or anything.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>>
> >>>> Hugh
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
>