Re: Some Printers not Rolling over when Cluster Fails -

Also confirm the port monitor is installed on both nodes if you are using HP
Standard TCP/IP Port on one node but not installed on the other you will see
this type of failure. There should be an event 28 (I think) indicating the
port was not initialized.

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"Mike Rosado [MSFT]" <mikeros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Nyk,
>
> Go through and review the following article. It sounds like the printers
> are not to the shared storage.
>
> 302539 How to Troubleshoot Printing Issues on a Windows Server 2003
> Cluster
> http://support.microsoft.com/?id=302539
>
> --
> Hope this helps,
> Mike Rosado
> Windows 2000 MCSE + MCDBA
> Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
> Windows NT/2000/2003 Cluster Technologies
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> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <Nyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: RE: Some Printers not Rolling over when Cluster Fails -
>> Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 17:05:02 -0700
>>
>> Hadn't thought of that but after I increased the size still same thing.
>>
>> All the printers that are doing it are of the same vendor and type I have
>> 12
>> out of 30 HP4250's and 5 out of 10 5500's
>>
>> When I roll them over to Node 2 they say "Printer not found on server.
>> Unable to connect"
>>
>>
>>
>> "Mike Rosado [MSFT]" wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Nyk,
>> >
>> > Have you tried increasing the Quorum Log Size?
>> >
>> > 257897 MSCS Printer Shares May Not Come Online If Quorum Log Is Too
>> > Small
>> > http://support.microsoft.com/?id=257897
>> >
>> > --
>> > Hope this helps,
>> > Mike Rosado
>> > Windows 2000 MCSE + MCDBA
>> > Microsoft Enterprise Platform Support
>> > Windows NT/2000/2003 Cluster Technologies
>> >
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: =?Utf-8?B?Tnlr?= <Nyk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > > Subject: Some Printers not Rolling over when Cluster Fails -
>> > > Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:55:02 -0700
>> > >
>> > > Have 2 Servers Clustered Active / Passive - On this server are a
>> > > handful of
>> > > our services one of them being Printing - we have about 100 printers
>> > > on this
>> > > server. When I roll the Active Node over to the Passive Node
>> > > (Manually or if
>> > > the server actually fails.) A handful of printers don't roll over.
>> > > Most of
>> > > them are the same couple types of printes - for instance I have 12
>> > > HP4200's
>> > > about 5 of them fail and don't roll over, check drivers
>> > > PCL/PostScript all
>> > > that. Just really at a loss and I can not find any info about it. Any
>> > > ideas?
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>


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