Network Printing

Installing Printing Components

This process does not use Cluster Administrator. Instead, perform the following actions. Only TCP/IP and simple LPR ports are supported.

Go to the Printers folder for each node and ensure that each has the appropriate protocols, port monitors, language monitors, print processors, and forms installed. You can do this remotely, but you must address each node by its node name, not the cluster name. A specification made on one node does not carry over to the other nodes, so ensure that the settings are identical on all nodes.
On each node install the printer drivers you want to use for the cluster. Each node of the cluster must have the correct printer drivers installed for all clients that connect to the printer share. Otherwise, Point and Print does not work and clients are prompted to install drivers when they connect to the printer the first time.
Add printer ports from the Cluster virtual computer Printers folder in addition to the cluster node computers.