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Server printers stop printing & queue print files

November 29, 2013, 8:50 am
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Server 2012 R2

This happens frequently, I have Lexmark laser printers shared by this server. When it works, the printers print from the clients. What happens is all the shared printers on the server stop sending the print jobs to the printer and just backup in the queue and show " sent to printer". I restarted the print spooler to no avail. What I have to do to get them printed is to reboot the server. That should not be the way to clear this.

Any ideas why the printer objects stop working?

John Lenz

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Print server deploying through group policy

December 2, 2013, 4:52 am
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Hi Guys,

I wonder if any one help me in the below scenario..

1. I am planning to configure print server in my environment, want to deploy the same through GPO but .

 My Active Dir server having three OU but  don't want to deploy the printer through this.

2. I want to configure three more gpo  named as site1, site2, site3 and deploy the printer through this but user should be access printer alone from this gpo . Remaining policy should be from existing  gpo

Let me know any possibility for the above scenario.....?

Thanks

Ranjith.M

ranjith

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How to permanently fix print spooler service crashing on a LAN?

November 11, 2013, 6:31 am
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Hello,

Since 10 days, from time to time, a client will be unable to print. This issue is happening regularly now and we never had it before.

Each time, I have to delete files into the spooler folder and then to restart the print spooler. But it keeps happening!

The only thing that changed here is that we moved some computers to another room and added some switches. But also those that we didn't moved, at an other floor, have the same issue with their printers...

It is a challenge as I can try each time another 'trick' but I will never be sure of the issue until it happens (or not) again.

Thank you!

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Printer shows offline in Print Management - it isn't

April 2, 2013, 6:38 am
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A network printer was moved from one location to another recently, and it got a new IP address since it is now in a different subnet.

I confirmed that the IP address in the printer was changed and, on the print server.  But it still shows up in Print Management as "offline", so it is also showing up as offline on the workstations it's deployed to.  The users can print to it.  I can ping it's IP.

Any ideas why it would be showing as offline?

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Users are being prompted to download print drivers when attemtping to print

December 6, 2013, 11:55 am
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Hello,

Our end-users are being prompted to download print drivers when they attempt to print.  It will occur for only a handful of printers on the server.  There haven't been any driver changes on the server.

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getting printer that is not published to me

December 5, 2013, 11:47 pm
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Hi everyone,

If got a strange thing happening here, i still get a printer that is not distributed to me, when i try to distribute it, i get the printer twice. I'm not sure its something in the policy or not, i check the AD and there i see the printer only once.

Tnx for the help

Kenneth

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Windows 2012 server IPP Connect link

July 19, 2013, 10:02 am
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Hi,

Windows 2012 does not show the connect link on the printer action page. Is this going to be a normal feature of 2012 or it is my configuration?

thks

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IPP with SSL on Windows 2008 R2 server?

November 10, 2011, 4:01 pm
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It's my understanding that MS no longer support SSL for IPP with WIndows 2008.

Either my information is wrong or MS has decided that the Internet has become a much, much safer place.

Can anyone confirm/refute this apparently huge step backwards by MS?

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Setting up printer on a 2003 server in another domain

December 10, 2013, 12:18 pm
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Hi 

I have a printer on a Server 2008 64bit which is shared in Domain A

I need a Server with 2003 32bit which is in Domain B to use the print on the Server in Domain A

When I type in the printer name in the printer wizzard e.g \\192.168.nnn.nn\The Printer the system request a driver. It has found the printer correctly on the other server in Domain A, as the message contains the details of the printer. When I try to add the driver it fails, telling me it is the wrong driver, even though it is the driver off the manufactures web site. 

What am I doing wrong?

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spoolsv.exe continually eats up physical memory

October 28, 2010, 6:28 pm
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I have server 2008 standard running terminal services to access a single accounting program.  We also use the server as a print server for the software.  We have approximately 20 different printers available on the server that the software can print to.  The problem is this: over the course of a day or more the server slows down. Upon inspection of the "task manager" it is always found that the process "spoolsv.exe" has a continnually increasing allocation of physical memory.  The CPU only has momentary activity when someone prints a job an then it returns to zero.  At that point, sometimes the memory allocates then releases, and then sometimes it allocates then releases..but not all the way.  Of course when I'm not looking it runs wild.  In one day the memory allocation can climb to over 1GB.  The only way to correct the situation is to reset the spooler periodically, or restart the machine.  If I restart the spooler, everyone connected looses their local printers until they restart.  A server should be like Ronco, "set it and forget it", not daily resetting the spooler.  P.S. there are no jobs stuck in the printers folder of the spooler.  We run about 25 people on this server with only 8GB of RAM.  Doesn't take much for the spooler to bring it to a standstill.  I have stumped multiple IT guys and looked exstensively for an answer.  Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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on 64-bit 2k8 server, trying to add x86 drivers asks for ntprint.inf

April 9, 2008, 2:09 pm
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I've read the relevant threads, and no one seems to be having my exact problem.

 

The server is a 64-bit 2008 server with the print role installed.  I can add x64 drivers fine, but when trying to add x86 drivers, I get stuck.  I have tried several HP printers:  LJ2300, 4100, 2420.

 

Here's the procedure:

 

 

Under the Drivers area of Print Management, right click, Add Driver.

Click Next.

Select only x86 architecture.

Choose Have Disk.

Browse to the location of the extracted x86 driver for the printer.

Select printer from list (in this case LJ2420)

Click Next.

Windows prompts with the following:

Install Components from Windows Media

Please provide path to Windows media (x86 processor).

Type the path where the file is located and click OK.

 

It appears to be looking for ntprint.inf.  I have tried several OS installation CDs - Server 2003, XP, Vista.  None of them are accepted.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Thanks!

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2008 R2 Jobs stay as "Sent to Printer" if Creator Owner rights removed.

July 25, 2010, 6:54 pm
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We are experiencing a problem on Server 2008 R2 Enterprise with print jobs staying in the queue with a "Sent to Printer" status after they have been printed.

I have found two threads that describe a similar problem here and here but neither offers a solution applicable to this case.

I have also noticed that if the spooler is restarted with jobs in the "Sent To Printer" state they print a second time and clear from the queue. However, future jobs submitted still experience the same problem of not clearing.

I have tested this and it occurs on a HP 4050N (using MS provided drivers), a Samsung CLP-550 and a Fuji-Xerox AP-II 4000, printing from both Windows XP and Windows 7.

I have tracked the issue to occurring when the user printing does not have the "Manage Documents" rights to their print jobs. By default users get this right through the Creator Owner security settings for their own jobs, however print monitoring software such as Papercut requires you to remove this so users can not un-pause their own jobs. In previous versions of windows even with this right removed the jobs would still delete when printed. It appears in Server 2008 R2 the print server will not delete the job when printed if the user does not have "Manage Documents" right.

Can anyone suggest a solution to correctly delete jobs when printed, but not give users the Creator Owner so they can not bypass the print auditing software?

 

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Print jobs stay in the queue after job is completed cluttering the queue

April 16, 2013, 8:10 pm
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I'm running server 2008 r2.  I have multiple printers installed on this server along with the print management role.  This has been a consistent problem.  I've checked some of the previous posts in this forum and they recommend, although with trepidation, setting driver isolation to none so the print jobs will clear the queue.  This helped some of my printers but not all.  These posts also indicated the creator owner needs the manage documents permission which each of these printers has configured.  This is very frustrating.  I would apprecaite any recommendations or a fix for this situation.  Thanks.
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Anyone have Kodak G600 Printer Dock working in Win 8.0/8.1 32 bit? (Worked in Win7 32-bit)

December 9, 2013, 5:28 pm
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Hi,

Can anyone help with a Kodak G600 Printer Dock? The driver works fine in 32-bit Win XP and Win 7, but not in Win 8.1.

-- I've tried the 5.0.0.8 driver from the original EasyShare CD that came with the printer and which worked with older OSes.

-- I've tried several newer drivers, including the latest I could find, 5.3.0.42 (from DriverScape.com.)

-- I've tried the generic Kodak printer dock driver from Windows Update.

-- I've also experimented with the driver isolation settings, but to no avail.

Strangely, all of the drivers fail with different crashes or fatal errors in Win8.1.

** Has anyone found a Kodak G600 driver that works on Win 8 or 8.1? Other ideas?  Thx!

P.S. BTW- I've been told that Kodak never released a 64-bit driver for this. However I have had success installing the driver on a 32-bit Win XP virtual machine (VirtualBox) on a 64-bit host.

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W2k8 r2 - No printing after license activation

December 8, 2013, 8:55 am
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on Windows 2008 R2 there is one application available for clients. The problem is that after license activation we have no printing ability on the clients connecting to server remotely through remote desktop.

We could start printing window and press "print" (printer was visible), then printing queue goes empty but the printer did not print.

We couldn't even print locally on the admin account.(the same symptoms). 

The only thing we could do is to print to PDF.

One more thing we did recently after googling the issue was to grant write access to System32/spools/printers folder.

It resolved the issue partially - we can print from the administrator account but all the clients logging through VPN and Remote Desktop still can not.

Any idea what may be the reason? Something with the license configuration? I can see all the license active.


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printer is shared,but printing is not

March 7, 2012, 5:18 pm
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a HP LJ1020 works on a computer running windows xp pro well,and it's shared in LAN,connections from all other PCs running windows xp established without any problem.when printing from other PCs,the printer dose not print at all.

i've checked all settings and no mistake has been found.so i looked &windir%\spool folder and found 2 files name FP00001,these should be the image of doc i tried to print from other PC,but size 0KB!

I tried to connect this printer via SMB,and still failed to print.

is there anything i miss?

xptking@hotmail.com

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Can't access shared printers x64 win 7

June 20, 2013, 12:40 pm
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Hello:

I have a Windows 2008 R2 print server. I have installed both 64 bit and 32 bit drivers. I recently just started to deploy Win7x64 bit systems. When I try to connect to the printer I get this error. (printers are HP lasterjet 4015p) (other copiers and even HP laserjet 4350 I can connect to w/the x64 bit machines)

"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Some driver files are missing or incorrect. Reinstall the driver or try using the latest version."

The 32 bit clients have not problems connecting to the printers.

I can't even manually install the drivers on the PCs first. I get the same error.

I have tried:

1. UNC'ing to server and double clicking on printer

2. deleting printer driver and reinstall, but can't install driver

3. grabbed original cd that came with printer and try to install

4. tried the add printer wizard

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Is it possible to create a time restriction for groups to use printers across a domain?

December 16, 2013, 1:58 pm
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We are using Windows Server 2008 R1. Thanks
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Push default printer settings from server - setprinter.exe ?

March 20, 2012, 8:22 am
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Hi,

I need to push out some new default printer settings (mono and duplex) for 300 printers across about 12 x 2003/2008 print servers.  All of these devices are already mapped by around 2500 WinXP/7 users, so reconnecting the devices for everybody is not an option, nor is redeploying via GPO.  I've read the following thread, which appears to explain what I need to do:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/a0a9bb3f-db24-417d-9905-c310d068d3c6/ 

Firstly, I need the latest version of setprinter.exe, as the one I've got is date stamped April 2003, which I assume is the one that fails to work with devmode 9.  Does anybody know where I can get this from?

Secondly, I think it says that the clients will periodically update themselves with the server's default settings.  This is perfect, if correct.  However, would anybody please be able to explain when these periodic updates take place?

Many thanks in advance !

Andy

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Share Name, Printer Name and display name for End User

December 19, 2013, 12:41 pm
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We are being forced to standardize printer names.  So, for example, a printer that is on the print server might have the following properties:

NAME: PR25739

SHARE NAME: Clinic Admin Office

SERVER NAME: A700500

The share name seems to be pointless - almost vestigial.  When a user maps to the printer, it is named (on their device) PR25739 on A700500.  They can't change it, I can't change it - indeed, the Name field is disabled during the Install Printer Wizard.  The whole point of the share name, to me, is to make something that is user-friendly with context and useful information.  But the sharename seems to be completely ignored.  Is there any setting I can change that will make this printer map so that it is displayed to the user as Clinic Admin Office or even Clinic Admin Office on A700500?  Solutions that must take place on the EUD are not solutions - the name needs to be correct out of the box.

Thanks.

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