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Have you checked the spooler directory for old print jobs? Removal of SFM
wont delete any corrupt or odd jobs left over from when the problem struck.
At worst, you may find that you have to recreate the printers :-(
PaulS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Romeyn Prescott [mailto:prescor@potsdam.edu]
> Sent: 01 September 2001 15:07
> To: winmac@iffy.com
> Subject: [WinMac] Mac jobs to NT print Server
> Importance: High
>
>
> Greetings.
>
> We've had an NT print server (Name: Kronos) in place for three years
> now. It runs NT Server 4 (SP6+). While its chief role is to provide
> print services to Windows users on campus, it also services our Mac
> labs. It has performed reasonably flawlessly for years.
>
> When the students came back this year we got socked with another
> round of FunLove. It has the nasty side effect of generating rogue,
> unprintable, "Remote Downlevel Documents" on Kronos. (The silver
> lining in that cloud is that by tracking down the owner of the jobs,
> we know who has the virus!)
>
> Anyhoo, Kronos was ticking along all well and good until yesterday
> afternoon when Mac jobs stopped printing. Any attempt to print from
> a Mac (or even perform an "auto setup") results in an error message
> on the Mac and a mysterious print job on Kronos that is nameless,
> ownerless, and is in a perpetual state of "spooling". The only way
> to kill them is to stop/start the Print Server for Macintosh Service.
>
> Long about this time I noticed that I could NOT gracefully reboot
> Kronos. It core dumped every time. Given that Macs were the only
> ones having problems, I removed SFM. All of a sudden I could reboot
> properly! I then reinstalled SFM and reapplied SP6+hotfix and I
> still can't print from Macs.
>
> Help! Has anyone seen/dealt with this before?
>
> Lost and desperate,
> ...ROMeyn
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