Hi
I've been racking my brains over this for a while... we have the following setup:
Windows Server 2008 - sharing multiple printers out to a variety of clients.
Clients - xp, windows 7.
Problem: The XP clients are fine, all of the time. SOME of the windows 7 clients, have an issue: their printers (all mapped to this server, local printers are ok) are occasionally (once a day or so) showing as offline.
In this state it is not possible to remove and re-add the printers; the only way we have been able to temporarily solve it for each user, is to restart the (client side) print spooler service. Note that the service does not stop, all appears normal but the printers show as offline until the spooler service is restarted. there are no errors in the event logs.
any clues as to how one might nail down the source of this problem?
thanks