Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Printers

You are losing connection to the domain or the printer..... but why isn't
something that this NG would deal with, that would be either your IT
Department or the NG concerned with Networking.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Bill Glassbrook" <Bill Glassbrook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> This has occurred occasionally on my primary workstation (XPP-SP2) but
> also
> once or twice on other systems (including Win2k):
>
> All [hardware] printers are through the domain and usually work just fine.
> Then unexpectedly it complains that a printer is not ready, and upon
> pulling
> up the printer window there are none listed (hardware or software.)
> Generally, when this happens they pop back within a minute. This last
> time
> it took over 20 minutes, and "Could Not Complete [the] Operation" when I
> went
> to install one temporarily.
>
> The systems are up-to-date, and this does not seem to be a driver issue.
> What could be causing this and how can I correct it?

But it only knocks them out from YOUR PC, right? The original posting is
not clear. At the time YOUR PC loses connection to the printer, are OTHER
PCS and OTHER USERS still able to print OK? If this is the case, it would
appear to be YOUR PC's printer drivers corrupting YOUR SPOOLER ONLY and not
spoolers in other PCs. If this is the case, uninstall and reinstall the
printer(s) on YOUR PC.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Bill Glassbrook" <BillGlassbrook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I am the IT department (local & network admin.)
>
> If it was just a matter of losing connection to the printer, why would it
> (A) knock out ALL of the physical printers (B) also knock out the local
> software printers and (C) not allow any new printers to be installed?
>
> "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
>
>> You are losing connection to the domain or the printer..... but why isn't
>> something that this NG would deal with, that would be either your IT
>> Department or the NG concerned with Networking.
>> --
>> Cari (MS-MVP)
>> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
>> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>>
>> "Bill Glassbrook" <Bill Glassbrook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:5ECC5447-D1EF-4E3F-93F2-DE53DD04FB32@microsoft.com...
>> > This has occurred occasionally on my primary workstation (XPP-SP2) but
>> > also
>> > once or twice on other systems (including Win2k):
>> >
>> > All [hardware] printers are through the domain and usually work just
>> > fine.
>> > Then unexpectedly it complains that a printer is not ready, and upon
>> > pulling
>> > up the printer window there are none listed (hardware or software.)
>> > Generally, when this happens they pop back within a minute. This last
>> > time
>> > it took over 20 minutes, and "Could Not Complete [the] Operation" when
>> > I
>> > went
>> > to install one temporarily.
>> >
>> > The systems are up-to-date, and this does not seem to be a driver
>> > issue.
>> > What could be causing this and how can I correct it?
>>
>>
>>