Re: Unable to list printers, error: 0x800706BF. The remote procedure call failed

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 09/24/04

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    Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 21:39:22 -0700

    It worked like a charm :).!!!!

    Thanks a lot!

    /nik

    >-----Original Message-----
    >By default, the print spooler on Windows 2000 transfers
    up to 1 MB of data
    >in an RPC call. The default on Windows Server 2003 is 50
    MB. When you have a
    >large number of print queues, the buffer size required in
    order to transfer
    >the data for the EnumPrinters RPC call can be greater
    than 1MB.
    >
    >Add the following registry value under the key
    >HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print
    >MaxRpcSize REG_DWORD (desired max size in bytes, set it
    to 5 or 10 MB)
    >
    >restart the spooler service ("net stop spooler" and
    then "net start spooler"
    >from a cmd)
    >
    >--
    >Felix Maxa
    >Windows Printing Team
    >
    >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
    confers no rights.
    >
    >
    >"Nik" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
    message
    >news:098e01c49fd9$63c41150$a601280a@phx.gbl...
    >> We have 3 printservers w2k SP4 which have more than 500
    >> printqueues installed, and we get the error: "Unable to
    >> list printers, error: 0x800706BF. The remote procedure
    >> call failed and did not execute." when we try to list
    >> printers via prnadmin.dll or uses PrintMigrator 3.1 to
    >> backup printqueues remote. We suspect that the number of
    >> printqueues installed have something to do with it. We
    >> have a 4th printserver with the same configuration but
    >> with less than 500 printqueues installed. On this
    server,
    >> everything works fine. Does anyone have an idea to what
    >> the problem could be???.
    >> It doesnt seem to be a kerberos problem.
    >>
    >> Interestingly does this not seem to be an issus on our
    >> W2K3 printer with 1400 printqueues.
    >>
    >> Regards
    >>
    >> /nik
    >
    >
    >.
    >

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