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installed network printers disappear
Name: Ryan Date: March 14, 2001 at 06:20:44 Pacific
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Weird problem here. I seem to be getting random calls from my users where they complain that they cannot print. When I show p and go to the printers, there are none listed!! IF i re-boot them or even just re-log into the network, they return!! All windows 9x, NT 4.0 servers. Any one ever run into this???? Thanks
Name: dan Date: March 20, 2001 at 10:31:53 Pacific
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are they logging in as different users with no printers set up?
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Response Number 2
Name: ryan Date: March 21, 2001 at 06:39:59 Pacific
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nope
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Response Number 3
Name: Gsween Date: May 17, 2001 at 07:16:05 Pacific
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I have the same problem with Office 97. Mostly in Excel. All printers disappear and are recreated on reboot. Any answers?
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Response Number 4
Name: Chris Jones Date: June 11, 2001 at 11:46:19 Pacific
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I am having this problem as well. It seems very intermittant, and completely random. I have all Win98 WSs and all printing is from a Novell NetWare5.1 server, so i believe the problem to reside in the WSs themselves since Ryan states his printers reside on an NT machine. I know the Office version is not the cause of this, and that Office itself is not the culprit as I get these problems while printing from non-M$ apps as well. It is however getting highly annoying, if anyone can shed some light on this subject I'm sure we would ALL greatly appreciate it.
PS. I am headed into full fledged research mode on this problem and will post my findings soon.
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Response Number 5
Name: Morné Date: June 14, 2001 at 01:06:22 Pacific
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I am having the same problem on my network, this problem started up about a jear ago and carried on for about 1 month then the problem resolved for about 10 months and now it's back again. To add another twist to the tale, I have found this to happen on a Pear to Pear network, NO SERVER.
Well I am also trying to get to the bottom of this.
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