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November 7, 2005 at 9:47 am #2179139
Problem printing to shared printer
Lockedby borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
I have a new WinXP system on a domain, that prints to printers on the print server, no problem. However, I have one printer on a Win98 workstation, that I have shared, and the WinXP workstation, when I first log on sees the printer and prints, then after a while, can not see the printer or the workstation. Cant figure out what the problem could be. I can print from other systems to the win 98 printer, and The Win XP can also print elsewhere. ANy ideas?
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November 7, 2005 at 11:12 am #3137575
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by infoguy · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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Is the printer shared with a password? If so, you need to specify the password like so: “net use lpt1 \\computer\printer password /persistent:yes”
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November 7, 2005 at 11:27 am #3137565
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by sgt_shultz · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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lots of network traffice from the win98 box? you’ve eliminated spyware/worms as possible on win98 box, yes?
did you try locking nic media type to 10mb half duplex. does logging out and back in recover the printer? -
November 7, 2005 at 12:24 pm #3137537
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by der_kenar · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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must be same domain xp and win98 workstation
and you must config, win98 dns and workgroup
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November 15, 2005 at 11:45 am #3131287
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by borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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November 15, 2005 at 12:23 pm #3131267
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by borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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There is no password on the printer.
Yes, if I log the user off and back on, the printer will again work.
When logging on the printer seems to stay connected for about 10 to 30 minutes, before showing that “printer not found on server, unable to connect”I tried the following, I made the user an admin for the local XP machine. I renamed the Win98 system to eight character name ( Dellship) in case long name was a problem. I then reshared the printer on the win98 system.
ON the XP system I deleted the printer I added and started over.
This time, could not see the computer name, so I shared it as follows\\10.1.1.209\reneprt
It seems to take a long time to see it, but does, and shows up as a LanManager printer.
I can print a test page, and print documents. and then voila same problem,
“printer not found on server, unable to connect”
This is driving me crazy, I have never had such a problem sharing a workstation printer before.
HELP!!!!!
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November 15, 2005 at 12:25 pm #3131266
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by borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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November 16, 2005 at 3:21 pm #3131646
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by borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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Umm, I tried to see if I could see the win98 system in network neighbourhood from the WinXP system, and I cant.
For the life of me I can figure out how I can logon work fine for 30 minutes, and then this happens. Could the Win2000 server be causing this? I have not set any group policies. In fact as only a few users, I have not even set up groups, just using out of the box settings.
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November 17, 2005 at 7:49 am #3132056
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by borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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November 17, 2005 at 8:08 am #3132048
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by cg it · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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humm you sure this computer belongs to the domain? If this a Small Business Server 2003 domain?
Ran into a similar problem on a SBS 2003 domain in which an XP machine would connect for a period of time then disconnect. This was due to the computer not being a member of the domain [the user had an account on the domain]. we disjoined and rejoined the computer, all was well. You might want to disjoin the W9X box and rejoin it to the domain.
Assume you are running a WINS server for the W9X machines can you resolve and see the W9X machine?
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November 17, 2005 at 11:21 am #3131921
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by borg7of9 · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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CGIT
Thanks for the tips, the server is a windows2000 domain server with AD. I have never had to “join” a computer to a domain, I simply have added workstations wether win98/w2k pro/XP Pro, assign a user account, make a logon script, and eveything always worked fine.
To be honest, I am not sure if I am running WINS, but am running netbios over tcp, and never had a problem like this before. In this case, I have all workstations with a workgroup name same as domain name, as they use both the server and peer to peer.
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December 3, 2005 at 8:30 pm #3127972
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by mjost · about 16 years, 8 months ago
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The problem may lie in the Windows XP machine and you can change the default time-out period. XP can drop idle connections after a specified time-out period (by default, 15 minutes) to prevent wasting resources on unused sessions.
You cannot change the default time-out period for Microsoft Windows 95-based computers and Microsoft Windows 98-based computers that have shared resources.
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\parameters
3. In the right pane, click the autodisconnect value, and then on the Edit menu, click Modify. If the autodisconnect value does not exist, follow these steps:
a. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click REG_DWORD.
b. Type autodisconnect, and then press ENTER.4. Click Hexadecimal.
5. In the Value data box, type ffffffff, and then click OK.
6. I would also perform above steps to the Lanmanserver key as well.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\parametersHope this helps.
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December 3, 2005 at 8:39 pm #3127971
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by mjost · about 16 years, 8 months ago
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make that:
6. I would also perform above steps to the Lanmanserver key as well.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanserver\parameters
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