The Active Directory Domain Services -error

Hi, I'm new to these forms, my name is Kcaz.

Today I was trying to add wireless printers to my computer (Toshiba running Windows 7 64 bit). At home, I have one wireless printer (Cannon) which works fine. To install that i think I downloaded the drivers from a CD.

Now I was trying to download the drivers for the printers at school. They are all connected through the main internet network. I've seen people (mac) download the drivers wirelessly, and I wanted to do the same. So in Microsoft Word 2007, when I press print, then in the window "Find Printer" an error comes up that says "The Active Directory Domain Services is currently unavailable". It doesn't matter where I try it, home or school, i guess the problem is within the computer.

I tried to google this, but the responses are all about how people can't print, or another related, but not relevant problem.

Is there anyway to fix this?
~Kcaz

Well I can print fine. I;m just wondering how you add printers. Because I know the network I'm on at home works, and I still get the error

I know. I have network access. Like I don't think it has anything to do with networks because it doesn't work even at home where I'm positive there are no restrictions

A personal one.

Well it's not about the printer, it's in the computer. The same thing happens when you try and find a computer to shutdown on your network using shutdown -i in the command prompt. If you press shutdown -i, it opens a box with options, then if you press find computers the exact same error occurs.

Based off of this, I would think the problem is the computer doesn't have something called the Active Directory Domain Service which allows it to find other things on a network. That being said, I can still find other computers by typing net users into the command prompt so it's only for some things maybe commercial?