I've had a string of rooms that started dropping network access
intermittently. I sat and watched one room go up and down by watching
the lights on the workgroup switch in the room. I thought, great,
loose wire in the rj45 jack, but it hadn't gone down since. Today,
the two rooms next door both lost access completely. Wires checked
out OK, but no signal to the switch. Started working uphill toward
the cisco switch. It turned out to be a bank of ports on my 48-port
switch.
Quoting Eric Barringer <ebarrin...@blueridge18.org>:
I had mine!
A teacher mentions that she can't print to a network printer. An
investigation indicates an unavailable printer. I remote in to the
server and find the print spooler stopped. And it won't restart. It
starts up, then crashes immediately. Which means vast stretches of
printers are not functional.
I pulled a bunch of print spool registry keys out of the registry
and started putting them back in one at a time. The culprit turned
out to be a little Brother laser printer brought in by one of the
high school teachers. This printer had been running without problem
for most of last year, so I'm not sure what would have caused it to
spaz out right now. Possibly from an update, I ran a bunch of
updates over the summer and he has not used that printer since then.
-Eric
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Eric Barringer
Technology Coordinator
Blue Ridge CUSD #18
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