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    RPC Server is unavailable

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by grazzt, May 23, 2009.

  1. grazzt

    grazzt Notebook Consultant

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    I am having trouble with 1 of my 2 laptops trying to print to the printer that is hooked up to my desktop.

    1 of laptops works fine, found the network printer and printed out a test page... perfect

    the other laptop (nc8510p) gives me an RPC server error when I try and print to the exact shared printer. I looked in services.msc and the Remote Call Procedure was started and similar to my other laptop (nc8430).

    Thoughts? Any help would be appreciated.

    Grazzt
     
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  2. kegobeer

    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    What operating system is on the desktop? What operating systems are on the notebooks? Is everyone on the same workgroup? Are there identical users/passwords on all machines? Is RPC running as a local user or as an administrator on the problem machine? Are all machines running the same firewall/anti-virus software, and is configured the same?
     
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