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Vista - Re: Spooler Error - Windows cannot connect a shared printer on XP

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Old 10-04-2006   #1 (permalink)
john_medic_2000


 
 

Re: Spooler Error - Windows cannot connect a shared printer on XP


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" <MartinGeissler@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:42A2C247-16E6-455A-94E2-7DC75E2B909C@microsoft.com...
> > 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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