Network Printer Goes Offline when Computer "sleeps"

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1.Printers Go offline on Network under Win XP computers

I am facing a problem in my Window XP computers in all the computers the 
shared printers goes off-line after some time. User has to restart the system 
and printer are active again. 

Please let me know what could be the issue in printer sharing. We have all 
the original drivers installed, we have reconfigured printers but nothing 
works. 

Please  help 

2.Goes into sleep mode even though I have "Put computer to sleep"=ne

I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems comming 
out of sleep mode.  But I having a problem with mine going into sleep 
mode(and of course comming back out).  In power settings I have "put computer 
to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into 
sleep mode and I can't recover it.  I end up having to shutdown and reboot.  

It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode, 
but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I move 
the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens. 

Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some 
troublshooting ideas? 

This is a clean install on a new system
64 X2 4600
2gb ram
6600gt 256 video
EIDE hard drive

3.Goes into sleep mode even though I have "Put computer to sleep

Lots of good ideas.

I don't know why I didn't try and manually put it into sleep or hibernate 
mode.  So I tried that first.  Actually, it went in and back out of sleep 
mode and hibernate without any problems.  So then what?  I figured it must be 
a hardware problem with the video card.  I was able to get a working driver 
from Nvidea and that didn't work either.  It would still go into this blank 
state.

I did notice one other thing accidentally.  I was at the point where I was 
like the heck with Vista for now and put in my XP disk, and noticed that, 
even though I couldn't see anything on the screen(monitor was on, but no 
output comming from video card), auto run kicked.  So my computer wasn't 
asleap or in hibernate, I just wasn't getting any output to the monitor.  
Weird...

I guess I could try using the onboard video from my motherboard and see what 
happens, although that isn't much of a solution....I loaded up XP to see if I 
had this same problem(which I didn't).  So I know it's not a flat out 
hardware issue, but proably either be Vista or a driver problem.

"Raven Mill" wrote:

> Lots of folks don't realize this, but you have a LOT of options when it 
> comes to power saving on most systems.
> 
> There are also BIOS settings that may or may not turn on power saving ...
> 
> Make sure to tell windows to NOT turn off the video, hard drive, etc and 
> that will solve many problems.
> 
> Make sure that you don't have some type of hotkey or what-have-you set to 
> put the system into hibernate.
> 
> TURN OFF HIBERNATE SUPPORT, which is different than the "never" on the 
> "power schemes" tab.  Go to the HIBERNATE tab and UNcheck "Enable Hibernate" 
> to turn it off.
> 
> 
> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message 
> news:%23UYuw2$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM ...
> > That indication is normal behavior.  Pressing the front power button 
> > briefly should wake it up just like a laptop coming out of hibernation.
> >
> > "andy" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in message 
> > news: XXXX@XXXXX.COM ...
> >> On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:17:01 -0700, loopist
> >> < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote:
> >>
> >>>I know there have been a lot of posts about people having problems 
> >>>comming
> >>>out of sleep mode.  But I having a problem with mine going into sleep
> >>>mode(and of course comming back out).  In power settings I have "put 
> >>>computer
> >>>to sleep" = never, but if I leave it sit over night it apears to go into
> >>>sleep mode and I can't recover it.  I end up having to shutdown and 
> >>>reboot.
> >>>
> >>>It MAY be a leap to assume it's going into sleep mode, or any other mode,
> >>>but what I'm seeing is that the fans are on, power light is one, but I 
> >>>move
> >>>the mouse, hit spacebar or anythign on the keyboard and nothing happens.
> >>
> >> Looks like the computer is crashing. In sleep mode the power goes off,
> >> and the power light blinks.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>Maybe I'm way off base on my assumptions, but can anybod provide some
> >>>troublshooting ideas?
> >>
> >> Can you put the computer in sleep mode? And then come out of sleep
> >> mode?
> >>
> >>>
> >>>This is a clean install on a new system
> >>>64 X2 4600
> >>>2gb ram
> >>>6600gt 256 video
> >>>EIDE hard drive
> >>
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> 

4.Vista Basic - network printer goes offline on re-start

I bought a laptop for my daughter about two weeks ago with Windows Vista 
Home edition. It is working fine generally.

I set this up on our home (Netgear wireless router) network I gave the 
laptop a ame and changed the Windows Workgroup to the same as the other 
two computers on our home network, set up the WEP key and it connected 
okay, can access the Internet and can see and be seen on our home network.

One of the other two computers (still running Windows ME) has an Epson 760 
printer attached, and I have never had any problems connecting to this or 
printing on it - from my other laptop (running Windows XP).

In order to add a connection to a network printer (the Epson 760 mentioned 
above) on to the Vista laptop, I have found that it is not possible to add 
this directly as a network printer (gives an error message). However (after 
consulting an on-line forum) I have found that it is possible to add it as a 
local printer, and then direct Vista to use the network port for the printer 
on the other computer (e.g. using format of   \\network-name\device-name   ). 

Well this works okay initially. The printer is added shows on-line - and 
I can print to it over our network.

However here is the problem. If I turn the Vista laptop off, when I start 
it again later the network printer appears off-line, even though the Vista 
laptop is still properly connected to the network (can see and be seen, and 
can access the Internet). All attempts to turn the printer back on-line fail 
(either directly or as administrator using UAC) showing an error.

I have checked various on-line forums (including this one) and many people 
using Vista computers seem to be suffering this problem on a range of 
different printers.

I have tried various things 

1.	I updated my Windows ME PC to use NTLM2 but this doesn seem to have 
any effect. 

2.	I also responded to a Microsoft web page article that someone referred me 
to (934455 - A "Web Services on Devices"-based printer appears as Offline 
after you wake a Windows Vista-based computer from sleep). Microsoft sent me 
a hotfix patch which I have installed, but this has not had any effect in 
helping resolve this problem.

The only (rather crazy) olutionthat I (and clearly others) have found to 
work is to delete the printer and immediately re-install it whereupon it 
starts working again immediately. This can be right there must be a 
better way. 

Perhaps someone has some other suggestions? (or maybe Microsoft could just 
fix this?)

Howard - Sheffield UK

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