Re: Answer Found Re: How get Xy to use network printer

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

At 04:14 PM 11/25/2007, you wrote:


I think there's some sort of
underlying fault with the software on the computer related to
networking


Here's a long shot: have you turned off some required
"service"? Run SERVICES.MSC and sort by
"status"--then look at what's marked "disabled" to
see if any of them pertain to networking. If so, try enabling
them.


I was trying to avoid rehashing this problem, because I see this more as
a computer rather than a XyWrite issue, but here goes:


In my attempts to solve my nonworking "net use LPT1" command, I
had found something online about services.msc, and while nothing is
disabled, there is clearly something up with the Workstation service.
It's enabled, but can't be started/restarted. This is confirmed by
"net start workstation" at a command prompt, which also gives
me "error 2250."


When I chased 2250 down through Help and Support, it told me to "sc
query" the service, which yielded the  following:


>>C:\Documents and Settings\Paul>sc query workstation

[SC] EnumQueryServicesStatus:OpenService FAILED 1060:


The specified service does not exist as an installed
service.<<


I don't know whether this is the source of my "net use lpt1"
problem or not, but tonite as I was again reviewing some of the internet
sources I'd referred to in the past, I came across something I hadn't
found before; it was a description of the Workstation service that made
it sound like a good candidate for the problem.


Another online suggestion I found some time before said that upgrading to
Great Plains 8.0 (which I'd never heard of, and am not running) could
mess with the registry with respect to Workstation and Server services,
and interfere with file and printer sharing. It seemed worth checking out
anyway, so I double-checked to see that I had wkssvc.dll and srvsvc.dll
in the right place (\Windows\system32\) and that they were in the
registry at the right place. On the face of it, everything looked
fine.


It's possible that wkssvc.dll is somehow corrupted. And having said that,
perhaps I'll remember tomorrow to copy it from my portable to this
machine and see if it makes a difference.



But as far as I'm
concerned, it doesn't pay to try to fix a problem that's been solved in
other ways.


Hey, that's not the spirit that created America! Well, maybe it is, but
still . . .


Well, my people immigrated to Canada first (back in the days when
immigration was called colonizing and Canada was New France), and came to
the US later, so maybe that accounts for my spiritual problem. How much
should I bang my head against the wall before I get tired of it, eh?



Any insights, re the computer (not Canada), welcome--


-pl



Paul Lagasse

PO Box 144

Kemblesville, PA 19347

pglagasse@xxxxxxxx


Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. -- The Borg

Cooperate with the inevitable. -- Dale Carnegie