I have a domain.

One Domain controller based on Windows Server 2000 shares an HP LaserJet 6L
printer.
The printer is accessed over the network by a number of Windows 2000
workstations, Windows XP Pro workstations and Windows XP Home workstations
as well as a number of Macintosh OS 7.5 and OS X 10.4.11 systems, some are
domain members and some are not, but they all work and print flawlessly.

A recent Windows Vista Home Premium PC can problematically connect to this
shared printer, the dialog to make a network connection never seems to
complete, but the connection is there, the printer shows up on the laptop PC
and can print to the printer.

If the Laptop computer goes to sleep or is rebooted, the unit can see the
printer but it will no longer print, it just hangs for a real long time and
the printer queue is jammed with a print job that cannot be flushed by
anyone but an administrator shutting down the spooler, deleting the job and
restarting the spooler.

If the printer on the Vista machine is deleted and a new connection is made,
then it can print again, until the next sleep or reboot.

I am finding it hard to figure out what has gone wrong here, but given that
all the other computers with all the other variations of Operating Systems
can faithfully connect to and make use of the printer, I am almost compelled
to declare that Windows Vista is broken.




Does anyone have any way to solve this problem?

Windows 2000 Server shared printer intermittently works with Vista Home PremiumIt is not good solution, but you may try to add the printer as local printer first and then map it as network printer. this search result may help.

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"Richard Tomkins" wrote in message ...
I have a domain.

One Domain controller based on Windows Server 2000 shares an HP LaserJet 6L printer.
The printer is accessed over the network by a number of Windows 2000 workstations, Windows XP Pro workstations and Windows XP Home workstations as well as a number of Macintosh OS 7.5 and OS X 10.4.11 systems, some are domain members and some are not, but they all work and print flawlessly.

A recent Windows Vista Home Premium PC can problematically connect to this shared printer, the dialog to make a network connection never seems to complete, but the connection is there, the printer shows up on the laptop PC and can print to the printer.

If the Laptop computer goes to sleep or is rebooted, the unit can see the printer but it will no longer print, it just hangs for a real long time and the printer queue is jammed with a print job that cannot be flushed by anyone but an administrator shutting down the spooler, deleting the job and restarting the spooler.

If the printer on the Vista machine is deleted and a new connection is made, then it can print again, until the next sleep or reboot.

I am finding it hard to figure out what has gone wrong here, but given that all the other computers with all the other variations of Operating Systems can faithfully connect to and make use of the printer, I am almost compelled to declare that Windows Vista is broken.




Does anyone have any way to solve this problem?

Robert,

Thank you for the two links, I will try this out later today.

Is this a bug that needs to be reported to Microsoft? Or, did they remove
Windows operational functionality to force a switch to Macintosh OS X
platforms?

Regards, Richard Tomkins



On 10/25/08 10:40 PM, in article ,
"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" wrote:

It is not good solution, but you may try to add the printer as local printer
first and then map it as network printer. this search result may help.