Hi Folks,
I have an HP4550 printer connected to a win2k network via a jetdirect card.
I connected several users to the printer via ipp and this appeared to work fine initially. I was able to ‘see’ the printer during the configuration of the client machines and was able to print test pages leaving a bunch of happy printing campers behind me.
Suddenly, users reported being unable to print. When I attempted to check the printer in the ‘Printers’ window on a client machine it ‘hung’ for about 30 seconds before telling me ‘Printer not found on server, unable to connect’. This despite the fact that I could not only ‘ping’ the printer but could also telnet to it and log in as the administrator. All the settings seemed fine, to my eyes anyway.
Then, without warning and without me changing anything, the printer seemed to come back to life. Then it ‘went down’ again. Then it came back up and has been up and down like the proverbial lady of the night’s undergarments ever since.
Anybody got any ideas as to what might be causing this ?