Print Jobs Looping Continuously in Print Manager (137065)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q137065 SYMPTOMS
Your computer is running Windows NT and has a printer connected to a local
port. After you share the printer for use by other users and then issue a
NET USE command from a command prompt of the same computer to establish a
connection to your own printer, your own print jobs do not print and appear
to loop continuously as recursive documents called "Remote Downlevel
Document" in the print queue.
Additional symptoms include event messages in the System event log:
Event ID: 10
Source: Print
User: NT AUTHORITY\ANONY
Type: information
Description: Document XXX, Remote Downlevel Document owned by was printed
on Printer_nameX via LPT1:. Size in bytes; ## pages printed: 0
This will only occur if you redirect LPT1: using the "Net Use" command to
use the shared network printer connected to the local computer then print
to it.
Net use LPT1: \\This_machine\printer_share
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem:
- Run Print Manager.
- Select the problem print queue.
- From the Printer menu, choose Pause Printer.
- Select the document caught in the loop.
- From the Document menu, choose Remove Document.
- At a command prompt, type:
net use /d lpt<x>:
where <x> in lpt<x>: is the number of your lpt printer port. - From the Printer menu, choose Resume Printer.
Printing works correctly now.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 5/7/2003 |
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| Keywords: | kbprint KB137065 |
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