Re: Network printing - HowTo?

Look for user.dmp files when the spooler fails.


open a command window, change to the directory of the user.dmp file and
execute

ntsd -z user.dmp


this will launch another window and there will be a prompt.

Type k

this will dump a stack trace of the failure

Copy and paste the stack.


If there is no user.dmp file see if there is a drwtsn32.log in the \windows
directory


open this in notepad and look for failures in spoolsv.exe

then look for FAULT

you will see something like this


function: localspl
7c781616 90 nop
7c781617 90 nop
7c781618 90 nop
7c781619 90 nop
7c78161a 90 nop
7c78161b 90 nop
7c78161c 90 nop
7c78161d 90 nop
7c78161e 90 nop
7c78161f 90 nop
FAULT ->7c781620 cc int 3
7c781621 40 inc eax
7c781622 a07c7cff15 mov al,[15ff7c7c]
7c781627 b410 mov ah,0x10
7c781629 787c js localspl+0x16a7 (7c7816a7)
7c78162b c3 ret
7c78162c 90 nop
7c78162d 90 nop
7c78162e 90 nop
7c78162f 90 nop
7c781630 90 nop

*----> Stack Back Trace <----*
ChildEBP RetAddr Args to Child
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be
wrong.
03f2ef9c 740643b5 11ea2200 73075bb0 00000005 localspl+0x1620
03f2efd0 01001616 109d1cd8 73075bb0 00000005
SPOOLSS!GetPrinterDriverExW+0x65
03f2f014 7307679b 109d1cd8 73075bb0 00000005 spoolsv!YGetPrinterDriver2+0x7c
03f2f098 730769ae 0b394914 73075bb0 00000005 winspool!GetPrinterDriverW+0xcb
03f2f140 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 winspool!Ordinal212+0x3e




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"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Windows server 2003 Standard, sp2.
Linn

"Alan Morris [MSFT]" <alanmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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what operating system is the server running?




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"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the response Hal. Yeah, that's the method I'm currently
using

Guess I'm wondering if sharing my network printers off of a server is
the best way to go about this or if there is some other method I could
use. I'm not even sure there is another way, maybe this is it but I
don't know.

My problem is that the print spooler on one of my print servers keeps
crashing. I can't figure out why so I was wondering if there is any way
to take the server out of the loop.

Thanks,
Linn

"Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]" <hhh@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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See if this helps:

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm
Adding a network printer for all Users

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"Linn Kubler" <lkubler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm running a smallish network, 50 computers, 9 servers and about 26
printers. Most everyone needs access to about half of the printers.
What
is the best way to accomplish this?

Currently I have two servers setup with printers installed and shared
and
then I attach the workstations to those shares. This was working Ok
for a
while but now the spooler on one of my servers keeps crashing and I'm
not
sure why. It was suggested that I need to update the printer drivers
but
I
already have the latest printer drivers installed and have basically
the
same drivers installed on each server. The other server is running
just
fine so far.

I'm thinking the best way to solve this is to setup a new server and
migrate
the printers over to it, hopefully finding or simply replacing the
corrupt
driver along the way.

But that got me thinking.... Is there a better way to deploy printers?
Keep
in mind that only a few of my users actually have their own computer,
most
move around from computer to computer from day to day and having them
install their own printers is not practical.

Guess I'm wondering, how would you handle this situation?

Thanks in advance,
Linn












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