Comments on: Using WHS as a print server

By: Printer Troubleshooting

Printer Troubleshooting — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:15:57 +0000

Nice blog about printer. I have a lot of problem with my office printer. I’m IT support and need to solve any problem. Do you have any suggestion about printer troushooting guide site? Thank you very much.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:04:09 +0000

Wow – actually found the fix:

Solution to stalled print jobs on WHS :

1. Login to your WHS via Remote Desktop
2. Start / Control Panel / Administrative Tools / Services
3. Find the “Print Spooler” service, double-click to view properties
4. Select the “Log On” Tab
5. UNCHECK “Allow service to interact with desktop”
6. Click OK
7. Restart the service

You may have to reinstall the printers after modifying the print spooler service properties.

I have 2 USB printers – HP Laserjet 1020 & HP Color Laserjet 1600 – both which exhibited the “stalled documents in print queue” problem.
After modifying the printer spooler service properties above I can print to both printers from three other networked clients (all running XP Pro). Both printer hav W2K3 drives installed on the WHS.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:59:00 +0000

I actually have the same problem as Vin with my LaserJet 1020. The drivers are installed fine.

What is odd is that if I reboot the WHS, the queue prints on reboot! Restarting the print service doesn’t have the same effect. There are no errors in the event log (just information Event 13) and I have tried disabling / enabling “Advanced Features” and Bi-directional support and I have tried by passing the spooler directly. When I turn all of this off WHS “thinks” the document prints just fine… as I get an Event Log saying “Documented printed”… but nothing happened.

Thoughts?

By: n00bert

n00bert — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:12:23 +0000

Hi, how do I setup the sharing that I don’t have to enter a password every time i want connect to the printer?

And how can I connect from vista to the whs printer? Its says the drivers could not be downloaded …

Thanks
n00bert

By: Joel

Joel — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:55:38 +0000

Reply to Vin’s post on October 29th:

(I warn you, I’m from Sweden – my english is not perfect… :D)

I had the same problem with my LaserJet 3600… The drivers on HP’s site doesn’t seem to work. Even if windows says that the pages are being successfully printed – they aren’t.

How to fix it?
Go to Control panel > System > Hardware > Device manager.
Aha, in the “IEEE (blah blah) printers”-list there are a ! sign in front of the printers name. That means a conflict! Right-click on the printer i the list > Properties and click the button “Re-install the driver” or something similar (it’s the left button).

GL HF,
Joel

By: Vin

Vin — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:26:26 +0000

I have a HP Laserjet 1018 which I would like to use as a shared printer from my WHS.

I installed the Laserjet on my WHS using 2003 drivers from HP’s site.

(All my client PCs are Vista Business Laptops.)

I tried installing the Laserjet on my Laptop by adding a Network Printer. It was installed as a network printer successfully.

When I try to print from my Laptop, the printer queue on the WHS immediately shows that it has one document to be printed, but it doesn’t print it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Vin