Little Confused Any help appreciated :S

By Danny D
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Danny D

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Hi,

I have a different problem. On one of my computers I cannot print on any printer on the network. Everytime i try to print it says "Could not print" sometimes i get access denied sometimes nothing, it just does not print. I put it on any other PC on the network it works fine.. any idea?

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+BudMan MVC

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And are you sharing this printer or directly printing to the IP with the driver setup on the computer. What user account are you using? You could be running in to the connection limit again, etc.

Happy to help but need some details.

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Yeah Budman he didnt even know what a Hub was Im pritty sure he wont know what a RAID is ;) Can you see all your network'd printers print queue's? What kind of printer is it? Look at the manual on how to connect it to a network or are you mapping it through another PC using USB/Parallel etc?

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Danny D

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Can you guys please stop with the bashing? And yes every question I have I will ask it here. Thanks to everyone who has helped. Next week I will be re-doing the whole network my self, but instead of windows professional I will be using windows 2003 server because it does not limit me to 10 connections. Out of the whole network in our office the only thing that I dont understand is why there are 30 ethernet cables when there is only 10 computers and 2-3 printers. I cant see where the wires run because they are all placed in the ceiling.

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Don't worry Danny, at least you're eager to learn (and a fast learner too). Just keep up the good work!

The extra cables could probably be just installed there to leave room for expansion? (that's my random stab at it) Or just to connect the computers to the hubs/ switches and to connect the network together. Perhaps just go around figuring out which cable connects to which? So you can get an idea of what you're doing when you're re-doing the whole network.

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+BudMan MVC

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We have gone over the wire thing danny.. You do not need them -- clean them up, the guy before you must of been an idiot!!

There should be only 1 wire to each machine to 1 switch.

I would HIGHLY suggest you clean up the extra wiring -- can you pull out the extra wires? And this time label or mark which machine goes to which port on the switch, etc. If that was a managed switch it would be easy enough to figure out which machine was plugged in where by mac address.

But since its not a managed switch your going to have to use the lights to see witch one goes out, or which one goes on when you plug in the machine.. etc..

But clean up the wiring it will save you headaches in the future if you have problems with a machine, etc. And to be honest if your wanting to learn about network, and do this thing I would prob look into getting a managed/smart switch. Just so you can lean the basics if nothing else.

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