Nightmare on Printing Weirdness

Servers 2x NW6SP5e
Clients WIN2kSP4 running Novell Clients 4.90SP2
We currently run a number of different NDS Que based printers . We keep
having this periodic nightmare, rougly every 8 hours or so.
The clients state the the printers are saying unable to connect to server
and are unavailable. Rebooting the computers does not fix the problem. This
happens sporadically to one user and the precipitates to the reminder of the
user population accessing those queues and the only way that seems to fix
the problem is to reboot the server, then the
clients are fine, though a small handful sometimes need to be rebooted. I
have had a look at the error logs which dont show anything etc on the server
and whilst the problem is happening there seems to be no problems on the
server end. Though rebooting the servers fixes the problem. HELLPPPPPPP!!!

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Peter,
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