Re: LPT1 Port Prints to Network Printer

From: Bruce Sanderson (Bruce.Sanderson_at_junk.junk)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 14:03:20 -0800

Most likely the Print Spooler service is stopped; perhaps it failed during
startup.

Open a Command Prompt and key the command:

    net start spooler

Do your printers now appear in the Printers folder (try closing the Printers
folder and opening it again)?

If the Print Spooler is failing consistently, this is most often caused by a
problem with one or more printer drivers. See if the info at
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm helps. 

-- 
Bruce Sanderson MVP
It's perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:d9c301c40aa9$f8716bb0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>
> Hey BIll. I thought that did it. Well it did for a day or
> so. I came in on monday and fired up the computer. Went
> about my business, tried to print and got nothing. I went
> to Settings->Printers and there were no printers set up at
> all. I did nothing to the printers and they are gone. When
> I go to ADD PRINTER I get an error "printer operation
> cannot continue due to lack of resources. The print
> subsystem is unavailable." Ahhhh! What happened? any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>     Brent
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Thanks Bill. That did it. I can't say how much that
> >helped. Now I need help finding all the hair I ripped
> >out.We are a small company and I am the Troubleshooter
> >here and I have no experience, I am a graphic artist not
> >an IT Pro. Just curious, how would I add that back to
> >the "net use" if I wanted too? I am trying to figure out
> >how it got that way in the first place.
> >Thanks Again
> >Brent
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>--------------------
> >>From: "Brent" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
> >>Subject: LPT1 Port Prints to Network Printer
> >>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:55:53 -0800
> >>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.printing
> >>
> >>Any printer I connect Directly to my PC through the
> >>printer port prints to my network printer. I only have
> >one
> >>printer connected to my network. Even if I remove all my
> >>printers and only have my LPT printer set up it still
> >>prints to my network printer. I have always kept on top
> >of
> >>my windows updates and I think it happened from one of
> >the
> >>updates but I am not completely sure when it happened.
> >all
> >>I know is I can't connect a printer directly to my LPT 1
> >>port. I can however connect it to my USB port and it
> >works
> >>fine. Unfortunatly I need this printer for a Dos program
> >I
> >>am running and connot point the program to the printer
> >>untill I get it on my LPT1 port. Any Suggestions?
> >>--
> >>
> >>Brent,
> >>
> >>It sounds like your LPT1 port has been mapped to your
> >network printer.  To find out if this is the case go to a
> >Command
> >>Prompt and run the command "net use" and look to see if
> >you see LPT1 listed.  If it is listed then has been
> >mapped.  To
> >>remove the mapping we need to run the command "net use
> >lpt1 /d" and once this is done print jobs sent to LPT1
> >should go
> >>to the local Parallel port.
> >>
> >>Bill Peele
> >>Microsoft Enterprise Support
> >>
> >>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
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> >>
> >>Note:  For the benefit of the community-at-large, all
> >responses to this message are best directed to the
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> >>from which they originated.
> >.
> >

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