I have a friend that has 2 Windows XP machines, 1 Windows 8 machine, and 2 network printers on his network. The network is all cabled, no Wifi used.
The problem he is having is that if the Win 8 machine is turned off, print jobs from the Win XP machines won't print and just sit in the print queue until they fail. However, as soon the Win 8 machine is turned on before the print job fails, the print jobs will go to the printer.
If the Win 8 machine is disconnected from the network, the Win XP machines don't have any problems printing.
It appears that Win 8 is doing something to the network that is causing a problem, even when it is shut down.
Does anyone know how to solve his problem?