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by jblake

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I am new to networks and I have a problem that is beyond me. On the w2kServer, I have installed 2 network pinters (An Oki 5100 and a Kyocera something) on the server several times. Every time, they work from all 7 of the workstations for a while, then mysteriously they disapear (This SEEMS to be happening at around 3:00 pm-or atleast for the last 3 days this is the case) I reset the server and check if they are back . no I fiddle around blindly but doNOT reinstall them, I reset the server again after i've actually done no good and viola! they are back again.???????????
Anyone got any ideas?

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by hberkhoff

Do you have any Antivirus software running on that server? If yes ...is this Mcafee? If yes, contact Mcafee for this...they will provide you with an update of the SPOOLSS.DLL.

I've seen this before, an update of this file resolved the problem.
If this is not the case, as a work-around you could stop and start the spooler service on regular intervals with a scheduled batch job like below :

net stop ""/Y
net start ""

good luck.

by rnwindahl

DNS may be the culprit. Add a forward/reverse and run nslookup to be sure it is working.

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