[THIN] Re: Printer Autocreation not working after Winsock fix

  • From: Durf <stygmata@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:25:25 -0500

Thanks, I will try both of those tomorrow when users are offline.


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:40:05 +1000, Rick Mack <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First thing to try is using printcfg to see if the printers can be 
> autocreated manually.
> 
> If this works then fixing things up is fairly simple.
> 
> If not, fixing the problem may require either deleting and recreating the ICA 
> listeners (tscc.msc), or worst case uninstalling/reinstalling Metaframe. The 
> latter can be a bit challenging depending on FR/SP level.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Rick
> 
> Ulrich Mack
> Volante Systems
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Durf
> Sent: Thu 30/12/2004 10:40 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Printer Autocreation not working after Winsock fix
> 
> 
> Hi folks;
> 
> The subject line pretty much says it all -- printers are no longer
> autocreating after having to do extensive work fixing a spywared
> Citrix MF XP \ Windows 2000 server.  Some piece of spyware had broken
> the IE/winsock relationship and utilities such as LSPFix and
> WinsockFix failed to restore the necessary registry entries.  The
> short-term resolution was to back up and restore the
> HKLM\..Services\Winsock and Winsock2 keyes from an identical server.
> 
> Since then, though, printer autocreation is 'frozen' - there are a
> small number of autocreated client printers which persist from reboot
> to reboot, but no new ones are created (and the old ones never go
> away).  I've cleared out the spool\printers directory and restarted
> services, rebooted, etc, and no joy.
> 
> Any suggestions short of reinstalling Citrix and/or rebuilding?
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