Duplicate Print Output on PC-LAN Server from Windows 95 Client

• Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you print from a Windows 95 workstation to a shared printer on an IBM PC-LAN (PCLP) peer print server, print jobs may randomly be printed twice.

CAUSE

When you print to SMB-based servers that use the Core SMB dialect, the Microsoft Client for Microsoft Networks (VRedir) does not correctly initialize the Spool Header Size and Spool Mode fields in the Open Spool File SMB command. Although other networking products (including Microsoft's) ignore these fields, the IBM PC-LAN peer print server uses the values in these fields as described in the SMB specifications. When these fields are not correctly initialized, the PC-LAN print server may randomly print the submitted job twice.

This symptom does not occur when you print from Windows NT workstations, or when you are using the Windows 95 real-mode client (Net.exe) to connect to the PC-LAN peer print server.

RESOLUTION

This issue is resolved by the following updated file for Windows 95, and later versions of this file:

   VREDIR.VXD  version 4.00.959  dated 9/4/96  140,403 bytes 

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95. An update to address this problem is now available, but is not fully regression tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. Unless you are severely impacted by this specific problem, Microsoft does not recommend implementing this update at this time. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for additional information about the availability of this update.

This issue is resolved in Microsoft Windows 98.

MORE INFORMATION

This update is currently available in English (U.S.) and French versions.

For additional information about issues resolved by updates to this component, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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Keywords : kbnetwork kbpolicy kbprint win95
Version : 95
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb