Hi guys

Been looking all over the net for help with this because its not a fox problem, but when all else has failed, this forum usually has something to offer.

Here's the problem.

In one particular location, I can connect to a remote printer in DOS but not Windows 2000 (the exact opposite of the most common Win2k print problem on this forum)

I carry my machine around with me to various sites and don't have the problem in most places. Nor do I have the problem at home (where I plug into a simple 4 station home LAN)

One particular site just won't play ball. I can see all the computers in the workgroup. I can (sometimes) even click on to a selected workstation and get the list of shared devices. One or two even, occasionally, let me use their shared printer.

One station in particular, however, just will not let me get at the printer under Windows (though it will happily pump out DOS printing till the cows come home).

The spooler goes berserk (starts using 60-70% CPU resources and pumping out an ever increasing stream of data) and the machine effectively "hangs". If I try to close down the print folder, explorer shuts down and I'm left without a desktop and have to log off or restart. (I can, however, go into the control panel, admin services and shut down the Print services that way without losing the desktop)

Naturally this is the most useful printer I need access to as it is in the same room that I work in.

I have been wrestling with it for weeks now. I have played around with protocols on each station. I've deleted and re-installed drivers, changed share names, deleted and re-installed print file sharing. I've changed network cards and even tried new memory. I've deleted the spooler file and re-extracted it from the cab files. The troublesome site is running on a Novell 4.12 network with mostly Win98 workstations and a few Win2K. I have no similar problems on other Novell sites (4.12 and 5.1).

And just to further confuse the issue, I use a dual boot system and when I boot in Win98 mode, the problem disappears.

If I couldn't connect to any remote printers anywhere, I would assume I'm doing something wrong. But as I can connect elsewhere, and in DOS only for this one, and in any form I like with this one under Windows 98, I'm now officially stumped.

Any suggestions?

Regards

Harry