u/DayDense9122

Hey guys,

I’m stuck on a weird printer issue on a Windows print server.

Whenever I try to enable “Share this printer”, I get:

Printer settings could not be saved. Remote connections to the Print Spooler are blocked by a policy set on your machine.

What I’ve checked so far:

• Print Spooler is running and set to Automatic
• Tried restarting it:

net stop spooler net start spooler

Checked local GPO:
* Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections = Enabled

Extra context:

• This is happening on a print server, not a client machine
• We’ve been using shared/network printers before — this just started randomly
• No known policy was intentionally set to block this

Anyone seen this before?

Where else should I check? Registry? Domain policies? Updates?

Appreciate any help 🙏