Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Connection contains real IP of NATed address

I was receiving this error in Checkpoint firewall log when using the Cisco IP communicator on the VPN Client pc. The symptons were that although I could hear the other party, I could place calls but the other party could not hear me. I resolved the issue by adding a NAT rule in Checkpoint as follows

Original Packet
source=any
destination= (ip address or range of vpn client)
Translated Packet
Source = original
destination= original
service= original

Print Spooler is preventing hibernation or standby

All of a sudden I began getting the following message

The service 'Print Spooler' is preventing the machine from entering hibernation. Try stopping this service and try again

This also applies to

The service 'Print Spooler' is preventing the machine from entering standby. Try stopping this service and try again

First I stopped the print spooler service

Then I went to the C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\PRINTERS folder and deleted all files in there.

Then I restarted the print spooler service.