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Win 2000 Printer Share Issue

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by ghy

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This has to be stupid, but I have not seen it before. Win 2000, simple printer share on a workgroup. Prints fine across net if spooling is off. Turn spooling on and remote computer's print job is immediately deleted when submitted with delete message returned to remote user.

What's happening here?

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by ghy

There is a bug in the Win 2000 Add a printer wizard. You can't use the "network printer" option for a shared printer in a workgroup. I selected local printer, created a new port, and entered the path to the printer. Works fine.

by ghy

I really like Win 2000, but "features" like this are irksome. Interestingly, I found the solution by typing the exact error message into Google. Ka-bang, answer at my finger tips. I'm beginning to think Google will replace my 2000 Server and Pro books (at least for the undocumented features).

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