Losing Shared Network Printer Connection

[Guest]

I have a shared Dell 1710 Printer off of a Dell Precision 390 XP Pro SP2
machine. Other PC's of the same specs can initially add and print to this
shared printer. If the user logs off and then back on, the printer is
unavailable and it states" Access Denied, or connection unavailable" There
are no security rights set on the share, everyone has full rights to it, and
I select "not" to have it show in directory. All XP firewalls are turned
off. All other network resources are accessible. Network is Win 2003 Active
Directory.

I tried recreating the share multiple times on the PC and have removed and
added the PC's back into the domain. This is in a lab type of setup where
all pc's use one common username to log on.

Thank you for any reply

Hemp

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Are you running into the 10 connection limitation (if the printer is
attached to an XP Pro PC)?

 

[Guest]

No it's only 7 PC's. Another thing, the same setup worked fine before new
PC's were installed. All specs and configurations fom the previous pc's were
preserved or are the same. I'm thinkink it may be an issue with the computer
membership in AD, but everything else seems to be fine, the printing issues
is the "only" issue.

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Verify the number of connections on the machine sharing the printer.
Applications that have printed will often keep a handle open to the machine
until the application is closed.

Launch mmc.exe Add snapin Shared Folders

if IPC$ is at 10 you have hit the max.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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[Guest]

No, number of connections is below 10. I also have another PC in an office
that shares a printer with another pc in the same office. It is doing the
same thing. It can initially establish a connection to the printer and then
it'll be unable to connect after the user logs off. This is also just a
basic printer share and I've never had any problems like this before. When
reinstalling\reconnecting to the printer sometimes the share isn't even
showing up when I browse to the PC until I wait about an hour. Weird

Verify the number of connections on the machine sharing the printer.
Applications that have printed will often keep a handle open to the machine
until the application is closed.

Launch mmc.exe Add snapin Shared Folders

if IPC$ is at 10 you have hit the max.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

No it's only 7 PC's. Another thing, the same setup worked fine before new
PC's were installed. All specs and configurations fom the previous pc's
were
preserved or are the same. I'm thinkink it may be an issue with the
computer
membership in AD, but everything else seems to be fine, the printing
issues
is the "only" issue.