Printers disappered

[Dave J]

For some reson all my printers disappered out of my
printers window they are just not there anymore. It won't
let me add one i keep getting an error message that
says "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of
resources. The print subsystem is unavalible" i also read
an article from the knowledge base that told me to go to
administrative tools then services then printer spooling
then make sure that is running i did that it was off then
when i went to open the printer menu and i got this
message "The procedure entry point TraceMessage could not
be located in the dynamic Link Library ADVAPI32.dll"

Can some one help me with this i havent had any luck yet.

 

[Chad]

-----Original Message-----
For some reson all my printers disappered out of my
printers window they are just not there anymore. It won't
let me add one i keep getting an error message that
says "Printer operation cannot continue due to lack of
resources. The print subsystem is unavalible" i also read
an article from the knowledge base that told me to go to
administrative tools then services then printer spooling
then make sure that is running i did that it was off then
when i went to open the printer menu and i got this
message "The procedure entry point TraceMessage could not
be located in the dynamic Link Library ADVAPI32.dll"

Can some one help me with this i havent had any luck yet.

.

I am having the same issue with a client of mine.
Although I get a different secondary error message, but
other than that the same issue applies. In addition,
when I try to restart the spooler service, I get the
following error:

Error 1068 - Dependancy Services of group failed to start.

I discovered that the dependent service is PMObserv.
When I attempt to start this service I get this error
message:

Error 2: the system cannont find the file specified.

The file named in the service's properties is
C:\winnt\system32\PMObserv.exe.

Have you resolved the issue yet, or has anyone else found
a resolution?

 

[Leoback]

Hello friend,

I had the same problem with my W2K server. Probably the PMObserv.exe is
corrupt or was lost. Put another copy of this file in your \system32
folder(PS: I get this file from w2k professional and put in w2k server
and it works!). After than, restart these services. Sorry for my bad
english...

Regards!

Leoonelson (from Brazil)

 

[Guest]

Hi,

You need to restart spooler service, you can get some info in system events
regarding this problem.