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by neville.brooke

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In my small peer to peer network I have a shared printer on one PC running W2K pro, that keeps disapearing to the other PC's on the LAN. A reboot of the PC fix's this . Any sugestions?

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by sgt_shultz

sounds like the print spooler service is crashing. next time try stopping and restarting the print spooler service. see if that fixes it without rebooting. if so, it is probably a problem with the printer driver. check mfg website for more info. examine settings see if you can influence problem. or check for print spool crash hang at support.microsoft.com

by w2ktechman

I agree with answer 1. But I think the problem may be with the spools file. If the updated driver does not fix it, re-run the latest service pack. That should update the spools file.

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