Re: shared printer WinXP Workgroup

Do method 1 on the box hosting the printer.

John

averied wrote:
man.. thanks but I had already seen that website.. Dunno if u've read it but it says..

Method 2
Use the following method to avoid null session connections that have a high session idle time and that have opened a handle to the named pipe \PIPE\spoolss.
Remove Printer Share on Clients
Identify clients that have local printer shares enabled (see the "More Information" section for additional information) and remove all local printer shares on these computers:
1. Open the Printers folder to verify whether you have shared a local printer.
2. Open the Properties window of the shared printer, and then click Sharing.
3. Click to select the Not Shared option.

If I disable the printer sharing.. hmm I think I wnt be able to share the printer..

"John John" wrote:


Killing sessions is one (ackward) way of making room for new sessions. To kill all the sessions at once you can stop the server service (net stop server) These are pretty crude and inconvenient ways of trying to cope with the problem. Put a restrictions on the null sessions and see if it helps:

Troubleshooting Server Message Block inbound connection limit in Windows peer-to-peer workgroup
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328459/

John

averied wrote:


OK I'm sorry .. my bad..

Do you think the command "net session /delete /yes" will do the deal?.. the problm with this is it must be ran manually everytime this happens..

Ca you tell me how to restrict the null sessions u're talking about without disabling the priting service??..

Thanks..

"John John" wrote:



Other than writing "... I read somewhere that a WinXP can't accept more than 5 connections..." you wrote none of what I said in my post and your statement was only half correct. Other than the previous recommendations you can restrict the nul sessions on the box hosting the printer.

John

averied wrote:



OK I already know what u've written, I even wrote it in my post..

I can't change the printer to a WinXP Pro neither a I can get a print server. I would like to reset the conections with a command or a registry key or whatever. My problem is solved everytime I restart the XP Home machine, because it resets the conections, and the error doesn't happen again until 5 users print..

I would like a command to reset the conections withour restarting?.. Does anyone know it??

Thanks..

"John John" wrote:




XP Pro can have a maximum of ten concurrent connections, XP home can have a maximum of 5. Move the printer to an XP Pro machine, it will alleviate the problem a bit. A simple and cost effective solution to your problem would be to get a print server for the printer.

John

averied wrote:




Hi,

I have a netowrk with 20 computers, some Win XP Pro, and most of them WinXP
Pro.

One of the WinXP Home machines has a shared USB printer, so all users in the
network use it. We are all in the same Workgroup. The problem is that in the
middle of the day, some machines cannot print, because it gives an error that
the machine sharing the printer can't accept more conections.

Is there some way to reset this connections every 10 minutes por example or
any other solution to this problem?, I read somewhere that a WinXP can't
accept more than 5 connections, but not sure, it's just a shared printer...

Any Advice? thanks..



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