Microsoft KB Archive/138244

= Printing Fails with "RPC Procedure Call Failed" =

Article ID: 138244

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

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This article was previously published under Q138244



SYMPTOMS
"RPC procedure call failed" error messages accompany the inability to connect to remote printers or to spool print jobs. Other operations besides printing may also generate similar RPC-related errors and may be symptoms of the same problem.



CAUSE
When a multithreaded client is making RPC calls to a server, and the server is rebooted or the network session with the server is otherwise lost, the client does not reset the associations to the server when the connection is reestablished. Thus the problem described here is not likely to be seen in an environment where network connections are highly reliable.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.51. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt

Keywords: kbfix kbnetwork kbprint KB138244

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