Print Session Hangs in Spooling Status and Printing for Session
Article ID: 169854
Article Last Modified on 6/24/2004
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SNA Server 3.0 Service Pack 4
- Microsoft SNA Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q169854
SYMPTOMS
An SNA Server 3270 Print Session gets stuck in Spooling status forever and
all printing for that print session stops. You have to stop the SNA Print
Service and restart in order to recover.
CAUSE
The problem happens when print sessions are stopped while print jobs are
still being spooled and other print sessions are still running. The
Spooling status bit is never unset (because of a bug in the code that was
supposed to do this), and SNA Manager will display this status in
preference to any other status bit which may be set (closing, inactive and
so on). Therefore, the status bar sits at Spooling and never gets updated
with the real status.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server 3.0 and 3.0 sp1.
This problem was corrected in the latest SNA Server version 3.0 U.S.
Service Pack. For information on obtaining this Service Pack, query on the
following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
MORE INFORMATION
With the fix applied, printing status is set to idle whenever SNA Print
Service ends the current print job.
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