Local printer spooler

[Guest]

I've attached a laser printer to an XP Pro machine. The printer has been shared and we could print to it locally or over the network just fine for over a year. Last week something happend and we can no longer print to it at all. If I attempt to print a test page, the queue shows the job in the printing status and then a second job flashes about every second or so with a spooling status (the number of print jobs goes from 1 to 2 over and over again). I see no unusual processes running. I have stopped and started the spooler service and I removed and reinstalled the printer. Nothing works. I've attached the printer to my XP Pro machine and it works fine from my machine so I know the problem resides on the other XP workstation. Help.

 

[Courtney]

First, make sure you are sharing the printer on the XP machine and any users
logging into the other machines have printer rights to your machine or this
won't work.

On the remote machines, install the printer as if it was local. When XP asks
for the port to connect to, create a Standard TCP/IP port (the port address
will be the computer with the printer).

When the host machine gets a print job, it will redirect it to the printer.
You should now be fine.

courtney

I've attached a laser printer to an XP Pro machine. The printer has been

shared and we could print to it locally or over the network just fine for
over a year. Last week something happend and we can no longer print to it at
all. If I attempt to print a test page, the queue shows the job in the
printing status and then a second job flashes about every second or so with
a spooling status (the number of print jobs goes from 1 to 2 over and over
again). I see no unusual processes running. I have stopped and started the
spooler service and I removed and reinstalled the printer. Nothing works.
I've attached the printer to my XP Pro machine and it works fine from my
machine so I know the problem resides on the other XP workstation. Help.