Peter J. Dickason, MCSE
2010-02-08 14:34:43 UTC
Hi all,
We have a Win2k3 x64 cluster with 2 nodes for print services. We have a
shared printer that is causing me fits. This printer was created earlier
but it is missing now. I could not explain why it is missing so I just went
ahead to recreate it. So I select the IP address that was there from the
previous printer and named the printer and the sharename the same as it was
before. It then proceeded to complain that the sharename already exists. I
did a net share from the node and sure enough it was listed. Now how in the
world can a share be out there that is not defined to any printer? The
printer is definately not in the printer list so I begin to wonder what
corruption I could have that would cause a printer to disappear from the
list but the server still thinks its there? Any ideas? I currently only
have 250 printers defined but the number will grow into the thousands so
things like this doesn't give me warm fuzzies about the whole thing.
Thanks
Pete
We have a Win2k3 x64 cluster with 2 nodes for print services. We have a
shared printer that is causing me fits. This printer was created earlier
but it is missing now. I could not explain why it is missing so I just went
ahead to recreate it. So I select the IP address that was there from the
previous printer and named the printer and the sharename the same as it was
before. It then proceeded to complain that the sharename already exists. I
did a net share from the node and sure enough it was listed. Now how in the
world can a share be out there that is not defined to any printer? The
printer is definately not in the printer list so I begin to wonder what
corruption I could have that would cause a printer to disappear from the
list but the server still thinks its there? Any ideas? I currently only
have 250 printers defined but the number will grow into the thousands so
things like this doesn't give me warm fuzzies about the whole thing.
Thanks
Pete