Printer Installation Error 0x000006be

The spooler service is failing.

1726 RPC_S_CALL_FAILED


this could be due to a faulting or corrupted driver.

What drivers are installed on the machine?

Printers Folder , File, Server Properties, Drivers.

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"MikeEgan" <MikeEgan.2sybyh@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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>
> Lawrence,
>
> try this. It could be that a service that the Spooler service depends
> on is not starting.
>
> Remove all Print Spooler service dependencies other than the Remote
> Procedure Call service.
>
>> Click Start, Run and enter sc config spooler depend= RPCSS (there must
>> be a space after "=" but not before it.)
>>
>> By removing the other dependencies the Print Spooler service should be
>> able to run, but the printer functionality may be affected, and it may
>> be necessary to reinstall the printer drivers.
>>
>> Don't forget to go back to services.msc \ right-click Print Spooler,
>> and then click Properties. make sure that the startup type is set to
>> Automatic. If it is not, click Automatic in the Startup type list, and
>> then click Apply.
>>
>> Under Service status, click Start.
>>
>> Click OK to close the Print Spooler Properties dialog box
>
>
> regards
>
>
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[Godsfunambulator]

Thank you for the Suggestion MikeEgan. I think that I tried your suggestion, but none of the dependencies can be shut down. The Stop command is shaded, and thus it cannot be stopped. The other day I went through and shut down every service that it would let me, and after every couple restarted the spooler and tried to add a printer, but always gave the same error. After that I started shutting down processes from the task manager, until window shutdown.

I checked the dependencies and they are HTTP & RPC, however, I started the fax and then checked back again and HTTP was gone. RPC nor its dependent DCOM are able to be stopped, and HTTP I cannot even find in the services. I found WinHTTP and started that and then the spooler, but same results.

Thank you for the suggestion, have any more? Anyone?

Lawrence

[Godsfunambulator]

Thanks for the reply Alen Morris. I don't think that any printer drivers are installed on the machine: I tried what you asked, but when I clicked on server properties I got the following error:

"Server properties cannot be viewed. The local printer spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler or restart the machine."

So of course I hummer Vista and restart the spooler and try it again. I got the same above error. Did you expect this? Is this problem better, worse or other? Any more suggestions?

Thank you,
Lawrence

[Godsfunambulator]

Hello

I still have not been able to fix this problem. Does anyone have any more ideas on how I can get this error to go away and fix the problem? Anyone? Alan Morris?

Thank you,
Lawrence

Bruce has the answer. I assume you can't list the print drivers installed
before the spooler gets taken out.

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm


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>
> Hello
>
> I still have not been able to fix this problem. Does anyone have any
> more ideas on how I can get this error to go away and fix the problem?
> Anyone? Alan Morris?
>
> Thank you,
> Lawrence
>
>
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[Godsfunambulator]

Alan Morris,

Thank you very much for your help. I did try this method of deleting all previously installed printers out of the registry and it worked beautifully. He also referred to a MS website for a more in depth removal, and for my problem it seemed that both were necessary.

But the problem and the head ache are now gone. Thank you and all else who helped me with fixing this problem.

Sincerely,
Lawrence

[Robert-uk]

This is for a HP Color Laser jet 2600n

This is the procedure that I followed and it seems to work I have now done it twice with a reboot in between
I downloaded the full English Package from the HP Website & unziped it to default location on the C: Drive
I then cleared all the Useless ports that had accrued on the previous installs eg 192.168.1.72_1 and 192.168.1.72_2 and so on,I

originally had 9


Do this by opening up another printers properties and viewing ports and deleting all ports for the printer you wish to install
In my case 192.168.1.72

I then restarted my machine to clean things up, this may not have been needed.



I then went to control panel / Printers / chose add a new printer / chose add a network printer / even though the printer was seen

/ I chose "the printer that I want isn't listed" / I then chose the option to add a printer using a TCP/IP address and entered my

address ie 192.168.1.72 and took the tick from the box to automatically select driver to use
Chose Next
Install printer driver page pops up / choose have disk / next
Browse to where the HP download was unzipped and locate the autorun.inf file / choose open and for me it was a flawless install /I

got the option to print a test page /perfect

Rebooted and test again / perfect

Robert-UK

[antrasanti]

In my case I'm having the same problem but I'm not working with a HP printer. My printer is a Canon Imageclass MF 4150 and I'm having the "Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006be)" message to when I try to install a printer through the network. In my case I'm trying to install a printer that is being sharing through another computer. This is frustating, could somebody help me?

Most likely the spooler service on the client is terminating due to the
print driver from the server

winerror 0x000006be
1726 RPC_S_CALL_FAILED <--> 0xc002001b RPC_NT_CALL_FAILED


What OS is the machine sharing the printer?

You can create local printer that copies the files to the share for the
printer rather than create an RPC connection to queue.

Create local printer

Create a Local Port in the format \\remotemachine\printsharename

Add the ImageClass driver (pickup the Vista driver for your OS architecture
from Canon)

Next Next Finish

this will basically just copy the

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>
> In my case I'm having the same problem but I'm not working with a HP
> printer. My printer is a Canon Imageclass MF 4150 and I'm having the
> "Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006be)" message to when I
> try to install a printer through the network. In my case I'm trying to
> install a printer that is being sharing through another computer. This
> is frustating, could somebody help me?
>
>
> --
> antrasanti
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>

[antrasanti]

Both computers are running Windows Vista Ultimate