I have two windows 8.1 pro laptops that are experiencing the same intermittent network printer issue. The problem is that the networked printer randomly appears as "offline" to these machines, and I'm at my wits end to figure out the root cause (and solve it). The usual fix is uninstall/reinstall the printer and hope. If any of you have experienced anything similar, I'd love to hear your ideas about it.
Environment: We are not in an AD domain environment. We have a server running Server 2008 R2 standard. This server provides three shares: Ricoh printer, "F Drive" (general file storage) and "P Drive" for users of Sage50. All of our client machines (desktops and laptops) are running Windows 8.1 Professional. For two of our laptop clients, the above happens (see paragraph 1). Note that one of the clients, I wiped and reinstalled Windows...