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w2k pro and nw5 printing

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by jason.brimhall 1 view

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After installing printer and trying to print a text doc i get nothing. I check jetadmin and try to view the job history. It gives me a message stating that this printer is attached only to NDS file servers. NDS is currently not supported on this machine.
I have client 4.8 installed
I can view the entire NDS tree from this workstation. I am also logged in as admin on the workstation and as the network
I am also running nt 4 servers and workstations that are able to print w/out a problem.The protocol being run is ip and ipx.
In jetadmin i am able to see all of the printers installed on the network and change properties and refresh them. I can't view job history though. I believe that this is all related to not being able to print.

Any help is appreciated

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by longmwa

what version of Jet Admin are you using and on what client? Can you command line ping the jet direct server? Have you tried hardware resetting it?

by jason.brimhall

It has nothing to do with the jet direct server since my other servers can print. All other workstations print. It is a local problem. The jetadmin is 3.42 I believe and the splashscreen indicates windows 2000 on it. It is the most recent jetadmin out there and I just downloaded it today as an extra troubleshooting tool. The problem I am certain is within w2k ads and nds compatability.
As per command line ping: yes response time is perfectly normal. I can even install point and printfor all of my printers through w2k network neighborhood.

by swilliam

are you printing to a queue or to an ndps printer? if to a queue, are you capturing a port to it?

by jason.brimhall

queue and yes it is captured.
The problem ended up being sorrupt client. It took a dozen delete and reinstalls but it eventually fixed it.

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