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Greetings,
When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." The printer is a USB Windows GDI device that works fine on both XP and Vista as a local printer. Prior to the upgrade to Vista the machine could print to the printer under XP. Other shared files and folders work fine. Guest, Anonymous and Network all have print rights. Firewalls both set to allow Microsoft File and Printer Sharing. I have Googled and scanned these newsgroups and found others with similar problems. Has anyone found a solution yet? -- Regards, Neale NOON |
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Wait for the vendor to provide driver support
"noonie" wrote in message ... Greetings, When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." The printer is a USB Windows GDI device that works fine on both XP and Vista as a local printer. Prior to the upgrade to Vista the machine could print to the printer under XP. Other shared files and folders work fine. Guest, Anonymous and Network all have print rights. Firewalls both set to allow Microsoft File and Printer Sharing. I have Googled and scanned these newsgroups and found others with similar problems. Has anyone found a solution yet? -- Regards, Neale NOON |
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Greetings,
Driver works fine locally on both XP and Vista. Is there some extra, special, driver associated with shared printers? -- Regards, Neale NOON "Techno-Crat" wrote in message ... Wait for the vendor to provide driver support "noonie" wrote in message ... Greetings, When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." The printer is a USB Windows GDI device that works fine on both XP and Vista as a local printer. Prior to the upgrade to Vista the machine could print to the printer under XP. Other shared files and folders work fine. Guest, Anonymous and Network all have print rights. Firewalls both set to allow Microsoft File and Printer Sharing. I have Googled and scanned these newsgroups and found others with similar problems. Has anyone found a solution yet? -- Regards, Neale NOON |
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Hi,
had a similar problem with the spooler service. After I deleted and recreated the user profile for the affected users, everything is working a-ok. It seems as if there are some information stored within a migrated user profile which do not work that well with the new spooler service. cheers Martin "noonie" wrote: Greetings, When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." The printer is a USB Windows GDI device that works fine on both XP and Vista as a local printer. Prior to the upgrade to Vista the machine could print to the printer under XP. Other shared files and folders work fine. Guest, Anonymous and Network all have print rights. Firewalls both set to allow Microsoft File and Printer Sharing. I have Googled and scanned these newsgroups and found others with similar problems. Has anyone found a solution yet? -- Regards, Neale NOON |
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Greetings,
Tried creating a new user and adding a printer from there. No Joy :-( I'll keep trying different things til either I Win or I give up ;-) -- Regards, Neale NOON "Martin Geissler" wrote in message ... Hi, had a similar problem with the spooler service. After I deleted and recreated the user profile for the affected users, everything is working a-ok. It seems as if there are some information stored within a migrated user profile which do not work that well with the new spooler service. cheers Martin "noonie" wrote: Greetings, When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." |
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I have the same problem, unable to install Brother 2030 over the wireless
network. Sharing from an XP SP2 machine (USB port). I have not tried to install the machine directly, like you said yours worked. I have tried to install a Samsung ML-6040 to the Vista RC1, but it does not recognise the XP driver. Are we shure it is not the XP machine that blocks access to the Brother 2030? Regards George "noonie" wrote in message ... Greetings, When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." The printer is a USB Windows GDI device that works fine on both XP and Vista as a local printer. Prior to the upgrade to Vista the machine could print to the printer under XP. Other shared files and folders work fine. Guest, Anonymous and Network all have print rights. Firewalls both set to allow Microsoft File and Printer Sharing. I have Googled and scanned these newsgroups and found others with similar problems. Has anyone found a solution yet? -- Regards, Neale NOON |
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you are doing better than me. I can't even get my brother mfc-420cn to even install, i am the administrator(and only person onthis computer) and it says i need my own permission to continue and then it won't let me give that permission say i don't have proper authorization.....any ideas "noonie" wrote: Greetings, Tried creating a new user and adding a printer from there. No Joy :-( I'll keep trying different things til either I Win or I give up ;-) -- Regards, Neale NOON "Martin Geissler" wrote in message ... Hi, had a similar problem with the spooler service. After I deleted and recreated the user profile for the affected users, everything is working a-ok. It seems as if there are some information stored within a migrated user profile which do not work that well with the new spooler service. cheers Martin "noonie" wrote: Greetings, When trying to connect to a shared Brother Laser (HL-2040) from a Windows Vista machine (upgraded from XP Pro) over a wireless network I get the following error:- "Windows cannot connect to the printer. The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine." |