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April 19, 2005 at 12:38 PM
jimklallsoo

Unable to access printer

by jimklallsoo . Updated 21 years, 4 months ago

Can someone please assist me in working out this head scratching problem?

I have a user who can’t print to one specific printer in our company (PR_Fin1)

This printer is shared out from our Windows NT server. This NT Server is only used as a print & file server.

When logged onto her own PC the user can see the printer is installed in printer & Faxes.

She can print to all other printers on the same Windows NT server. All printers on her PC appear as status ready apart from (PR_Fin1) wihch is either access denied or cannot connect.

Howerver, when i log into her PC as myself i can setup and print to the printer she is trying to print to. I can print as expected with no probs.

All other users in the company can also print to this printer no problems at all.

I have given her Local admin rights and she still can’t print to the printer.

When i logon to my PC under her profile and try to set the printer up on my PC she gets the same problem but again on my PC i can connect to the printer under my profile and print no probs.

1 – I have restarted the print spoolers.
2 – Added her into the Printer security groups with all the allow boxes checked.
3 – Made her a local admin
4 – I have reinstalled print drivers, although don’t think this is an issue either as i can print from the same PC’s
5 – I have reinstalled the printer

What am i missing here

PC’s i am trying this from are win2k and XP
Printer & driver is a HP4100n

P.s.

She could print ok to this printer before today and then when she started to print apparantly when she hit the print button it rebooted her PC.

I could see this being a dogy driver if it were isolated to one PC but why can’t she now access the printer from my PC?

Any help greatly appreciated

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