FYI: Issues with terminal server not working after restart & UNIXprinting/canon color printer (a really old one)

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FYI: Issues with terminal server not working after restart & UNIXprinting/canon color printer (a really old one)

Hi there,

begin this year I posted about terminal services often not working after
rebooting the server.

We finally found the issue. Not sure where the exact cause comes from,
but I figured I'd let you guys here know anyways.

The server had printer drivers installed for an old Canon color printer.
This thing required UNIX printing services to be installed on the
server. The printer was removed a long time ago (the drivers were still
installed on the server however, and so was UNIX printing).

Not sure if the canon driver or the UNIX printing caused the terminal
services frequently not to come up (service was running, but couldn't
connect to to it, no response from server). Deleting the Canon driver
and removing UNIX printing from the server solved the issue.

Please note it was in administrative mode, but don't think it will make
much of a difference.

Hope this might help someone in the future. Since there were no errors
(logged anyways) it was quite hard to figure this one out.

Kind regards
 
Re: FYI: Issues with terminal server not working after restart & UNIX printing/canon color printer (a really old one)

Re: FYI: Issues with terminal server not working after restart & UNIX printing/canon color printer (a really old one)

Interesting! Good job to solve this, and thanks for sharing the
solution with us!
_________________________________________________________
Vera Noest
MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
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Freaky <wontsay@ondeja.com> wrote on 02 jan 2008 in
microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:

> Hi there,
>
> begin this year I posted about terminal services often not
> working after rebooting the server.
>
> We finally found the issue. Not sure where the exact cause comes
> from, but I figured I'd let you guys here know anyways.
>
> The server had printer drivers installed for an old Canon color
> printer. This thing required UNIX printing services to be
> installed on the server. The printer was removed a long time ago
> (the drivers were still installed on the server however, and so
> was UNIX printing).
>
> Not sure if the canon driver or the UNIX printing caused the
> terminal services frequently not to come up (service was
> running, but couldn't connect to to it, no response from
> server). Deleting the Canon driver and removing UNIX printing
> from the server solved the issue.
>
> Please note it was in administrative mode, but don't think it
> will make much of a difference.
>
> Hope this might help someone in the future. Since there were no
> errors (logged anyways) it was quite hard to figure this one
> out.
>
> Kind regards
 
Re: FYI: Issues with terminal server not working after restart &UNIX printing/canon color printer (a really old one)

Re: FYI: Issues with terminal server not working after restart &UNIX printing/canon color printer (a really old one)

Very welcome :)

Vera Noest [MVP] wrote:
> Interesting! Good job to solve this, and thanks for sharing the
> solution with us!
> _________________________________________________________
> Vera Noest
> MCSE, CCEA, Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server
> TS troubleshooting: http://ts.veranoest.net
> ___ please respond in newsgroup, NOT by private email ___
>
> Freaky <wontsay@ondeja.com> wrote on 02 jan 2008 in
> microsoft.public.windows.terminal_services:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> begin this year I posted about terminal services often not
>> working after rebooting the server.
>>
>> We finally found the issue. Not sure where the exact cause comes
>> from, but I figured I'd let you guys here know anyways.
>>
>> The server had printer drivers installed for an old Canon color
>> printer. This thing required UNIX printing services to be
>> installed on the server. The printer was removed a long time ago
>> (the drivers were still installed on the server however, and so
>> was UNIX printing).
>>
>> Not sure if the canon driver or the UNIX printing caused the
>> terminal services frequently not to come up (service was
>> running, but couldn't connect to to it, no response from
>> server). Deleting the Canon driver and removing UNIX printing
>> from the server solved the issue.
>>
>> Please note it was in administrative mode, but don't think it
>> will make much of a difference.
>>
>> Hope this might help someone in the future. Since there were no
>> errors (logged anyways) it was quite hard to figure this one
>> out.
>>
>> Kind regards
 
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