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Windows cannot connect to the printer. error 0x00000006

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For the life of me I can not figure out why this is happening.

It only happens to a small % of computers in our office and the computers vary between new computers that were recently deployed and old computers that have been here for over a year.

I can ping the printer from command prompt without issue and connect to it via IE or any web browser.

Ive tried installing the Microsoft hot fixhttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/982728but that does not work. It says:

no matter which version of the hotfix I try.

So i found a work around which was to:

  • Go to theC:\Windows\system32\directory and find the file “mscms.dll“Copy that file to:
  • C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\x64\3\if you are using64-bitWindows 7
  • C:\windows\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\3\if you are using32-bitWindows 7

but that did not work either.

So I dug a little more and found an...


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