Printer Opening error

[Bamseven]

Hi.

I seem to have an odd problem. Windows 2000 workstations regularly have 'Printer Opening' in the status for the printer. The only way to fix this it seems is to do a search in the registry for the queue name and delete all references to the queue. While looking at the keys I was deleting I noticed that there were references to the servers with '\\\\server1\printqueue instead of say \\server1\\queue. Does anybody have a similar problem?. It only affects windows 2000 machines, and can re-occur on fixed workstations. Any insight would be great.

Cheers

Stephen

 

[KimberTech]

I have never run into this before, but this link is a good place to start.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;260142

Good luck, and if you find a solution let us know. It may help someone else in the future.

I think you might have posted this in the 2000 thread for better results. Kimber

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