Why would my printer disappear from a APP server? 2

[rocker40]

I have a windows 2000 server . Every once in a while the printers will be gone. After I reboot they all come back? What could cause this to happen?
Any ideas?
rocker40
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[Davetoo]

Check that your spooler service hasn't hung.

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[rocker40]

It was the print spooler!!
Thank you!!

 

[Davetoo]

You may want to troubleshoot that further to find out what is causing the spooler to hang. Reason is we had a print monitor hang last summer and it eventually crashed the server completely, which in turn brought the whole network down because (silly us), we were using our main server as a print server.

Just a thought.

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It just means my answers are from experience, not a book.

 

[rocker40]

Thank You I will.
You have been a great help.
Rocker40

 

[WWWhiplash]

To help prevent this from happening go to

Administrative Tools > Services > Print Spooler > Recovery

Set First, Second and Subsequent Failures to "Restart the Service".

The next time it fails the service will automaticly try to restart.

 

[rocker40]

would there be a way to have the server notify me if the service went down?
rocker40

 

[WWWhiplash]

You could set Subsequent Failure to Run a Program. And make a batch file to send a command line email notification. You don't really want to use messanger these days.