I’ve had three computers on my Win2000 network that occasionally forget the path to it’s network shared printer. Computers run Win 2000 or Win XP and printers are HP5 and HP4050.
This happens after computers are shut off at night and restarted in morning.
On the HP5 (which is shared from another computer) When I reinstall the printer, I start typing the address in and after I get as far as “\\number5\” it remembers what the rest of the address is. I can then click on that, and finish the installation.
On the HP4050 I just have to go in and reinstall the printer. The HP4050 has a network card and the computer can see the computer when I do the installation?.. i.e. I don?t have to type in part of the name etc?.. just tell the computer to search for printers.
All the other computers on the network that utilize this two printers have no problems remembering where this printers are.
The problem computers “forget” their printers about 85% of the time.
There are two computers that are forgetting where the HP5 printer is. There is one computer forgetting where the HP4050 is.
Any ideas?
