ghardy
@usmedequip.net
| Re: [Vista] Print Spooler service will not start. k....if you are on vista, and your spooler service does not work, you might have attached a network printer that is shared through a server.
i have a toshiba e-studio65 printer (tcp printer), but also have it shared off of the server. This caused the print spooler service in vista to lock up, not to be recovered. I could not even delete the printer anymore.
Next, i un-shared that network printer of the server, because vista could re-discover the printer, and i'm back to square one.
After restoring Vista to the ORIGINAL install point, i connected that printer through a local TCP/IP port, and installed the drivers for the manually (XP drivers by the way, because there were none for Vista).
From what i have read out there, this only happens to some printers. So, if you have a networked printer (connected directly to a network plug), do not go through another printer to get to it. Connect as a local port, and you will be fine. I think this might be a bug in Windows2003 Server printer sharing or the Vista print sub-system.
george hardy |
