The All-in-one printer at home is a Lexmark x2580 connected via USB to our desktop running Windows XP. the printer is shared. If my wife tries to print something from her laptop after I have used remote desktop to connect to the desktop, the print job gets stuck in the spooler until I reboot the desktop. I don't recall ever having this problem with our previous printer. I've tried removing and reinstalling the printer, deleting the share and recreating it, new print drivers, etc. I was thinking of putting the printer directly on the network but I would need a print server and not just a USB to ethernet adapter, correct? I can get another printer for about half the cost of a print server. OTOH, if the print job is not getting sent to the printer, that is an XP problem, no? I tried checking the option to not use a local printer in the XP remote desktop connection before I connect but that did not help. A problem like this should not be the printer, but OTOH whenever I do use the remote desktop connection I get some weird Lexmark license agreement show up that I need to agree to, so that is why I am wondering if it is somehow the printer.
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David
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Try it without using remote desktop and see if you get that agreement. I wonder if the drivers are all rolled up with scanning/printing/faxing software that has a license agreement.She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice. -
I fixed it. There is an option in Remote Desktop from the local machine to use locally defined printers. Basically it remaps the printer on the remote machine to use the printer connected to the local one. This was getting screwed up and wasn't unmapping itself when I logged off. I unchecked that option and no more problems.David
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