How to make a network printer smoother

In the process of using a network printer, you sometimes encounter a variety of strange fault prompts on the screen, and if you are not aware of the reasons for these prompts, it becomes very difficult to eliminate these prompts to continue using the network printer. In view of this, this article will be our usual access to network printers often encountered two fault prompts listed, and for each hint analysis of the reasons for each, at the same time provide a corresponding response, I believe that these content can help you smooth use of the network printer.

Resolve connection-restricted prompts and allow network printers to be popular

If the network printer connection is installed on one of the Windows 2000 Professional operating systems, then other workstations in the LAN may fail to connect to the network printer when accessing the network printer, and "The number of network printer connections allowed to reach the limit" may also appear on the screen. Such a hint, how do we respond to this kind of failure, so that the network printer can eliminate the number of connections, so that the printing effect of all?

In fact, this fault tip only appears on the Windows 2000 Professional operating system, because the system restricts the number of simultaneous connections to network printers by default, allowing only 10 print users to access the network printer at a time, and once the number of connections exceeds that limit, The network printer will naturally pop up the "network printer allowed the number of connections has reached the limit" such a hint.

To eliminate such failure prompts, we can wait for the current print task to be processed after the end, click the Start/Settings/Control Panel command, in the Pop-up System Control Panel window, double-click the Administrative Tools icon, and then double-click the Computer Management icon in the following interface to open the system's Computer Management window ；

In the left area of the window, expand the System Tools/Shared Folders/sessions project with the mouse. On the right side of the session item, right-click the empty location, perform the "Disconnect all session Connections" command from the pop-up right-click menu, and then try the network print again, " Network printers allow the number of connections to reach the limit "this hint will disappear for a while. However, once there are more than 10 connections to the network printer at the same time, the failure tips above will "bounce back". In order for the system to never have that kind of trouble again, the only way we can do that is to reinstall the Windows 2000 Server System or Windows 2003 Server system to the computer that the network printer is connected to.

Troubleshoot path error prompts for network printers to be used across the network

In a workstation of a subnet, the author when you try to access a shared printer that is located on another subnet, you first open the Add Printer Wizard interface, select the network printer item in the wizard ER interface, and then enter the URL path for the shared printer in the connect to this printer text box, for example, " Serverprint ", and then click Next button to prepare to install the network printer, the discovery screen unexpectedly appears" Cannot connect to the printer, or the specified printer does not connect to the server "such a hint, this is why, how should we eliminate such error hint?

Normally, if the workstation is in the same subnet as the network printer, the network printer can be installed successfully according to the above method; but now that the workstation and the network printer are not on the same subnet, when we re-enter the path information such as "Serverprint", The workstation system will only try to find a network printer on the local subnet, and in fact there is no network printer in the local subnet, so there is a hint of a network printer path error on the screen. To eliminate such failure prompts, we may wish to refer to the following steps.

First, in the local workstation where you want to access the network printer, open the system's Resource Manager interface, locate the hosts file for the local system by searching the file in the interface, and then open the Hosts file in WordPad or Notepad, and then enter the last line in the file editing interface. String content such as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx server, where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the computer on which the network printer resides, the server is the name of the computer on which the network printer resides, and finally the above content is still saved as a hosts file.

Next click the start, Settings, printers, and Faxes items, double-click the Add Printer option in the Pop-up Printers List window, and then go to the Network Printer Setup Wizard window, select network printers according to the wizard prompts, and then click Next. Next, enter a URL path such as "Serverprint" in the "Connect to this printer" text box and click the "Next" button to successfully install the network printer.

Small hint: Because the Hosts file is a system file, this type of file is hidden by default, so when we can't find the hosts file by searching the file, click Start/Settings/Control Panel, and in the System Control Panel window that pops up, Click Tools/Folder options in the menu bar, and then select in the Option Settings dialog box that pops up, click the View tab, and then in the Options Settings page, cancel the check status of the Hide protected operating system files item, select the Show all files and folders item, and then click OK "Button, we will search the hosts file again later to find it."