NT Logon Kills Network Printer
Kenn's
19980104: NT Logon Kills Network Printer
January/1998
Tech
Notes
Tech Note #4
If he logged on to the server, opened Print Manager there, and then sent one print job from a workstation, he would see that print job appear, followed immediately by a host of additional "Remote Print Job" entries. These entries would fill the screen of Print Manager over and over, in fact, endlessly. Until he logged off. At which time, the single print job would print.
What Keith discovered was that LPT1 had been mapped to the network share of the printer which actually was connected to LPT1. Network connections such as this are stored in user profiles, so when he logged off, that connection was severed. When logged on, though, any print job that was received for LPT1 was immediately remapped to the network connection, which would then be received again as a print job for LPT1 and be immediately remapped to the network connection, and that would again be received again, etc. etc. This is an endless loop, and that's what was filling up the Print Manager screen.
What Keith had to do was remove the network connection. Normally, you can do this in Print Manager but, for some reason, the connection did not show. Fortunately, he discovered that by removing the printer, and logging off and then on again, he was given the chance to remove the connection. At the logon screen, a dialog box came up informing him "Unable to connect to \\server\printer", with the choice whether or not to try to reconnect in the future. He clicked on NO, recreated the printer, and it worked fine ever since. (Note: He had to do that with all users. That is, delete the printer, then log off and then log on as each different user that ever logs on locally to the server. The network connection is stored for each individual user. Therefore, it must be removed for each individual user.)
Please see the next tech note for a related issue.
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