I'm using Win98 2nd ed. on a peer network. For some reason the printers all disappeared and now I can't add anymore. When I go through the Add printer wizard, it seizes up after I select the printer and press the next button. It does this as surely as taxes. Another symptom is that I can only enter the printer folder through the MY Computer folder. Going through the control panel or and settings does not work. Other goings-ons that seem to be closely related are that when I end task on the printer wizard, Rundll32 seems to start running. (I don't even know what it does.) AND, when I try to close windows I get a message that the spooler process is running which I can find no instance of. (Not that I really know what that is either). If you can't help me, at least explain what these dealies are. Grazi

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Just Joe

rundll is just a windows message that is telling you a particualr program can't operate ( run-dll, direct link library file ) Go here (http://www.coopertechnology.com/rundll32.htm) for some possible answers to your errors. Spooling is just the printer gathering data and putting it together to print. Ghost Hacker is the one here with the most networking knowledge; he might can help you with the network-printing error.

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iisbob
"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

How many Computers and Printers are on your network, are the printers hanging off computers or on their own Network Cards.

(Only recommended 10 computers on a peer to peer)

I had a similar problems but I dont think it is what has happened to you, but let me tell you a story.

One day with a Client Server (as opposed to peer 2 peer) there was a power cut.

We were using DHCP (every computer and printer with a NIC obtains a new IP address automatically when restarted), however we lost all our connections to all the network printers and could not add them.

This was because when Printer "A" was installed it was given an IP address auto', e.g 1.1.1.1, then when computers were setup up to run to these printers it used that IP address to find it.

This is where the big bad wolf came in, when we got power back and the printers came on they obtained new IP addresses e.g 2.2.2.2 but the computers where looking for 1.1.1.1 even when you tried to reinstall a netwok printer to that printer it still looked for 1.1.1.1.

So the Printers where given static IP addresses, re installed and we all lived happily ever after.

I needed the printer practicse.

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