Printing to a DNS resolved IP

[ouzojd]

Hi all, I'm new to this system administration thing so excuse my ignorance, they were silly enough to give a programmer this job.

Anyway, I have recently added all my printers to the DNS server and can successfully ping their DNS names and they return the correct IP address. All but one of these printers I can setup a standard TCP/IP port on the client and print to its DNS name.

The one printer that isn't working I can setup and successfully print to via a DNS name on my workstation but noone elses. They are all currently printing to it through its actual IP successfully. The reason I want to change to DNS is because we are changing ISPs tommorrow night and I thought if I could change the clients printer setup now it would save me a couple of hours tommorow night.

 

[ouzojd]

A small update, I just tried another client, and it worked, the difference been that when creating the standard TCP/IP port on the ones that didnt work it asked for additional port information, namely Parallel port 1,2 or 3 where as my PC and the client it did work on didnt ask for this info not sure why there is any difference?