Hi all,

i'm close to the edge... all of a suddend all my windows 98 clients cannot
print to any of the network printers located on a windows 2003 server. this
just started happening today, i rebooted the server, and still nothing.
all XP and w2k workstations are printing fine !!!.
wins is running, everything seems to be normal

MSG:
Document 48, Remote Downlevel Document owned by fred was deleted on HP
LaserJet 4000 @ Workroom (event id 13)
--> nothing else in the log files, no error just this information entry


any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Peter

Then what last changed on the server? Or perhaps in AD? Take a look at
this article as well:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;299656

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Hi Todd,

as far as i know, absolutely nothing. i re-checked the security policies to
ensure that the required items for w98 operability were disabled. i checked
wins, you name it. even tried to add a another printer, and still w98 wont
print to them, funny thing is that from the w98 machines you can open the
printers and view the properties !.

i just don't get it.

thanks
Peter

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Is SMB-signing enabled on the print server?
Is NetBIOS over TCP/IP enabled on the print server?
Has the print server lost it's domain membership?

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all checked out...

found the problem from that article, i saw it yesterday but it was kinda
confusing if you read it (delete the spooler files fromthe W98 server
?????). so i checked the print server's spooler directory, and deleted 315
..spl files from the directory, and the w98 clients are now printing
again....

i don't get it...but then....

thanks for the help
Peter.

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Glad it helped!

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