Shared networked printer becomes "unshared" at random intervals?

January 16, 2008

I have about a dozen networked printers all sharing off a Windows 2003

R2 with SP2 print server.

The problem I'm having is that one of these printer tends to

occasionally get "knocked off" of being shared for network printing

(i.e. under properties it no longer appears as Shared), and I have to

manually set it to be shared again. Three of the printers on the print

server are the exact same make and model and are all using the same

printer driver, and yet only one of them becomes "unshared".

Any ideas what might be causing the printer to become unshared? I am

the only Print Operator in the company, so I don't believe this is

something that's being done by another user. All the printers are

within the same class C subnet, and there is little to no latency

between them and the print server.

January 16, 2008

Re: Shared networked printer becomes "unshared" at random intervals?

Well I can't think of a clear reason for this ,but when I had a similar

problem last month I took it offline completely ,reinstalled it from the

scratch and gave it a brand new IP within the same old sub net ,the problem

ceased to exist.

"Rob Gordon" <Robert.Gordon@nospam.dslextreme.com> wrote in message

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>I have about a dozen networked printers all sharing off a Windows 2003 R2

>with SP2 print server.

>

> The problem I'm having is that one of these printer tends to occasionally

> get "knocked off" of being shared for network printing (i.e. under

> properties it no longer appears as Shared), and I have to manually set it

> to be shared again. Three of the printers on the print server are the

> exact same make and model and are all using the same printer driver, and

> yet only one of them becomes "unshared".

>

> Any ideas what might be causing the printer to become unshared? I am the

> only Print Operator in the company, so I don't believe this is something

> that's being done by another user. All the printers are within the same

> class C subnet, and there is little to no latency between them and the

> print server.

>

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