Re: Print Queues Briefly Unavailable on Cluster

Do you have any error messages in the Cluster, event, etc. logs?

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Rodney R. Fournier

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"Stuart Burns" <Stuart Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an issue where all print queues on a resource group momentarily go
off
line for the users and they get a printer has lost connection to server
error.

Having looked into this it appears that the spooler location changes from
S:\spool (The SAN Disk) to C:\windows\system32\spool\printers. When it's
spooling to C: the printers are unavailable to the users. This very
quickly
resolves it's self by flicking back to S:\Spool (Without any administrator
intervention)

I really need to get to the bottom of this issue. Any ideas where to start
troubleshooting: I've already....

Removed all unused ports.
Removed all unused drivers.
Only used MS signed V3 drivers.
Checked the SAN disks have plenty of space.
Checked all comms to the cluster (it's local to the nodes themselves)
Banged my head off a brick wall ....

These printers need to be available 24x7 (that's why they are clustered) -
any help greatly appreciated !!!



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