Tag: netsupport
When adding a printer / installing driver “The RPC server is unavailable”.
by Carl Farrington on Sep.19, 2008, under Computer Stuff, Tips & Tricks
This is due to the print spooler service not running, or dying during the install.
You may also find that the print spooler service frequently dies – “spoolsv.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close”, or the Printers and Faxes folder frequently appears empty – i.e. all your printers are missing.
NetSupport Manager or NetSupport PC Duo version 8 on Windows XP SP2 will cause this to happen. Update NetSupport and all will be well.
