Isn't it amazing so much seems to go wrong just as school starts, especially with equipment that's been chugging along for years? At our HS, a teacher workstation (worked in July), 8 ports on a backbone switch (why not the whole thing...), some ports on a couple 8 port switches in classrooms and a handful of things I learned of just as I was leaving on Friday all appear to have suddenly failed...
I wonder if it's Murphy's law or maybe that strange thunderstorm just before school started... It's undoubtedly going to be an interesting year. Dave Biby Christopher Unit #99 On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:09 PM, <rkas...@valmeyerk12.org> wrote: > 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 >> -- >> Eric Barringer >> Technology Coordinator >> Blue Ridge CUSD #18 >> >> >> > > > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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