antgel
March 9th 04, 05:42 PM
Hi all,
One of my users has a printer connected to his Win2k PC (name
UPSTAIRS-SMALL). Printing to it from another (WinXP) workstation fails
miserably. I tried to go back to first principles and go Start->Run
\\upstairs-small to see the shares on the machine.
That returns: "an extended error has occurred". Very helpful.
Then, in a dos prompt:
> C:\Documents and Settings\antgel>net view
> Server Name Remark
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> \\DOWNSTAIRS
> \\FUJITSU-LAPTOP LAPTOP
> \\PULSE-LAPTOP Pulse Solutions laptop
> \\RECEPTION
> \\SECRETARY
> \\SERVER Samba 3.0.1-Debian
> \\UPSTAIRS-SMALL
> The command completed successfully.
>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\antgel>net view \\upstairs-small
> An internal Windows 2000 error occurred.
>
> More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2140.
>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\antgel>net helpmsg 2140
>
> An internal Windows 2000 error occurred.
>
> EXPLANATION
>
> A software error occurred.
>
> ACTION
>
> Contact technical support.
>
Aside from the hilarity of the above, I need to get this going, and I am
technical support, DOH! This happens from more than one workstation.
The strange thing is that it does sometimes work (rarely), but appears to be
totally random.
A
One of my users has a printer connected to his Win2k PC (name
UPSTAIRS-SMALL). Printing to it from another (WinXP) workstation fails
miserably. I tried to go back to first principles and go Start->Run
\\upstairs-small to see the shares on the machine.
That returns: "an extended error has occurred". Very helpful.
Then, in a dos prompt:
> C:\Documents and Settings\antgel>net view
> Server Name Remark
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> \\DOWNSTAIRS
> \\FUJITSU-LAPTOP LAPTOP
> \\PULSE-LAPTOP Pulse Solutions laptop
> \\RECEPTION
> \\SECRETARY
> \\SERVER Samba 3.0.1-Debian
> \\UPSTAIRS-SMALL
> The command completed successfully.
>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\antgel>net view \\upstairs-small
> An internal Windows 2000 error occurred.
>
> More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2140.
>
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\antgel>net helpmsg 2140
>
> An internal Windows 2000 error occurred.
>
> EXPLANATION
>
> A software error occurred.
>
> ACTION
>
> Contact technical support.
>
Aside from the hilarity of the above, I need to get this going, and I am
technical support, DOH! This happens from more than one workstation.
The strange thing is that it does sometimes work (rarely), but appears to be
totally random.
A