Local Printer Won't Install
- From: "Presbyter" <someguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:25:16 -0500
I'm running Windows XP SP2. When I share a local printer over our Windows
2003 server I can log into remote desktop on the server and find my printer
listed in the directory of available printers. I cannot, however, view the
printer properties or install the printer.
Trying to view the printer properties I get, "Printer properties cannot be
displayed. The print spooler service is not running." Trying to install
the printer I get a long pause and then this message, "Windows cannot
connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or
the specified printer has lost its connection to the server. For more
information click help." Obviously 'help' was no help. This only happens
to printers attached to my local PC. I can work with printers attached
locally to other machines throughout our facility. I can directly add the
printer if I don't use the directory but rather type in the network address.
The properties will display O.K. in this method. The problem is that the
printer will print, but the print dialogue will not display in the remote
desktop window. After I send a document to the printer I have to close the
remote desktop window to see my local desktop and the print options window.
The document is there waiting to be printed, it just refuses to pop up in
the remote desktop window where I need it.
I've tried it with my firewall both on and off along with disabling the
Windows firewall service. I've rebooted the server and my local PC.
Nothing fixes it.
Since this only afflicts my system and I tend to tweak my settings I assume
I changed something. I did play with the "printer and faxes" window,
'server properties' to shut off those annoying print status balloons but I
put those settings back in the hope that it would fix this issue. No go.
Anyone have any suggestion where I should look next?
Thanks,
Ric
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