No Printers Installed - Yes, there bloody well are!

[SadOldGoth]

Hi Folks,

My users keep losing their network printers!! The most unusual so far is one of my users running access 2000 - one report would open fine, another, in the same instance, would display the message "No Printers Installed".

Has anyone got any suggestions, as this is driving my users crazy. And then they want to hit me :0(

Thanks,

Jes

 

[pQi]

Jes,

I am having the same freakin problem on my network, I don't know what the heck to do either...!!

For a little time it was working okay but now all of the sudden it just blanked out,

Here is something you can look at though for now to maybe help your problem, shut down the spooler and restart manually then automatic, that should bring everything back to normal, but keep this in mind this is just a temporary fix till you figure out a longer term fix for the problem you are having...

gwizard

 

[Illuvatar]

One solution that you could try is following.
Download from a site the tool called con2prt (if you can't find it, I'll mail it to you). By using this tool eg in the usrlogn2.cmd file you can attach network printers when a user logs in. When you try to use NET USE LPT: you won't see the printer in the printermanager and thus, a user can't see the printer from within Word (example). Con2prt adjusts the registry Current_User dynamically by displaying the connected printers a user can use. I use it as follows: when a user logs in, all default printers are erased. Next IFMEMBER (ntreskit tool) is used to check the users rights. Then con2prt is used to connect a user to a printer (or several printers). You can use con2prt also to define a default printer. Great tool, and always working...