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Network and Printer
Name: Atkinson Date: September 2, 2008 at 03:52:09 Pacific OS: Windows 2000 Server CPU/Ram: Intel Celeron 1GB RAM Product: Mecer
Comment:
A couple of machines on my network can't access the printer from time to time. Together with the rest of the network, they can access the email and all other network resources just fine. I also can't ping these two machines from the DNS server even though they can access other network resources.
Name: seawatch Date: September 2, 2008 at 05:29:26 Pacific
Reply:
Not much to go on, but I would check the switch they are hooked to. Could be bad ports, especially if the problem is intermittent.
Larry
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: September 2, 2008 at 13:48:40 Pacific
Reply:
If they work at all then ping was not a good test. Ping is a poor test in most cases.
You do need more info. Is the printer an ip based stand alone? Is it a shared resource? Are you on a domain? How many switches and routers do you have? Any netbios name issues. Are all machines on the correct time? How about lease times and number of lease ip's? Are the machines on APIPA? Did you use any tools like nslookup or ntstat or arp or tracrt?
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