Re: Shared Printer Stops working with XP SP2 upgrade

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From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 09/08/04 

Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 11:21:47 -0700

It's the connection limitation kicking in. Whether or not they 'use' the
share, they are taking it up.

Your option is either:

Purchase another printer, connect it to another PC and ensure that half the
PCs on the network use printer A as their default and the other half use
printer B....
or
Upgrade the PC with the printer to a Server operating system. The
connection limitation in the Windows 2000 Small Business Server is 49. In
Windows 2003 Small Business Server it's 75. In a full Windows Server,
whether 2000 or 2003 there is no connection limitation. 

-- 
Cari (MS-MVP Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com
"mk" <markk@nqgrg.com> wrote in message 
news:33ba53ca.0409080653.5a9aa4c7@posting.google.com...
> We have 2 machines on our network which share printers.  Both of these
> machines were recently upgraded to SP2.  Both of them shared printers
> fine prior to SP2.  Both of them have F&P sharing enabled.  Both have
> disabled firewalls.
>
> Here is the problem:
> If I restart the computer and other computers on the network, I am
> able to print to the computer over the network.  (The local computer
> can always print as they are not going through the share.)  After a
> certain period of time, I am not able to print on the shared printer.
> When I check my local computer the printer status says unable to
> connect.  If I try to open the properties, it tells me that the print
> spooler service is not running, although it is infact running on both
> computers.  Upon restarting the spooler service on the client
> machines, I am sometimes able to reconnect to the computer sharing the
> printer, but not always.
>
> As I said before, this didn't happen prior to SP2.  I do have more
> than 10 computers that connect to the share, however they do not use
> the share.  Is this that Microsoft now enforces the connection limit
> differently, or is there some issue with the connection itself?
>
> Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Relevant Pages

  • Re: cant see 1 computer on the network
    ... connection limitation. ... up using the network connection wizard. ... i have the problem computer running on my admin acct, ... one of the partitions as a common data storage site, ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web)
  • Re: OT- XP Networking Issue - Peer to Peer
    ... Richard G. Harper wrote: ... also remove the connection limitation of XP. ... You can have more than ten computers on any network, the limit only applies to connections to any shares on an XP computer. ...
    (microsoft.public.win2000.networking)