{"id":78,"date":"2010-10-21T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/?p=78"},"modified":"2011-04-08T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T06:27:48","slug":"printers-and-faxes-freezing-in-server-2003-sbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/printers-and-faxes-freezing-in-server-2003-sbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Printers and Faxes freezing in Server 2003 SBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t print to a network printer shared through Server 2003 SBS. \u00a0I tried restarting the <strong>Print Spooler<\/strong> on the Server but that ended up freezing the Printers and Faxes window. \u00a0 I tried clearing out the print queue by emptying the following folder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>%SystemRoot%\\System32\\Spool\\Printers<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>You will have to stop the Print Spooler to delete the files<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To fix this I deleted the TCP\/IP port in the registry:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>HKLM\\SYSTEM\\ControlSet001\\Control\\Print\\Monitors<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Look for the corresponding IP address. \u00a0Always backup the registry before modifying anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t print to a network printer shared through Server 2003 SBS. \u00a0I tried restarting the Print Spooler on the Server but that ended up freezing the Printers and Faxes window. \u00a0 I tried clearing out the print queue by emptying the following folder: %SystemRoot%\\System32\\Spool\\Printers You will have to stop the Print Spooler to delete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[79,43,42,39,41,37,38,40],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","tag-microsoft","tag-printer","tag-sbs","tag-server-2003","tag-spool","tag-spooler","tag-tcpip","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1vc3H-1g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanism.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}