Re: Disappearing/Reappearing Printers

You are losing connection to the domain or the printer..... but why isn't
something that this NG would deal with, that would be either your IT
Department or the NG concerned with Networking.
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows

"Bill Glassbrook" <Bill Glassbrook@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:5ECC5447-D1EF-4E3F-93F2-DE53DD04FB32@microsoft.com...

> This has occurred occasionally on my primary workstation (XPP-SP2) but
> also
> once or twice on other systems (including Win2k):
>
> All [hardware] printers are through the domain and usually work just fine.
> Then unexpectedly it complains that a printer is not ready, and upon
> pulling
> up the printer window there are none listed (hardware or software.)
> Generally, when this happens they pop back within a minute. This last
> time
> it took over 20 minutes, and "Could Not Complete [the] Operation" when I
> went
> to install one temporarily.
>
> The systems are up-to-date, and this does not seem to be a driver issue.
> What could be causing this and how can I correct it?