Re: Windows 2003 Print Server Problems by Lanwench
Lanwench
Thu Dec 06 08:20:03 PST 2007
TuxEdu <rstamps@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 10:58 am, TuxEdu <rsta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a Windows 2003 R2 Print Server setup. There are approximately
>> 300 networked printers configured on this server. The printers range
>> from dell, HP, Sharp, and others. The print spooler is on its own
>> harddrive for performance reasons. The problem I am having is the
>> server tends to just stop printing print jobs. You have to restart
>> the printer spooler in order to have the server function. There
>> isn't anything that I see in the event logs that would point me in
>> the right direction. Things are pretty normal in the event logs. I
>> am not sure what is causing this and it tends to happen pretty
>> randomly.
>>
>> Thank you for any help you may offer.
>
> Sorry forgot it is a Power Edge 1750, dual 2.4ghz processors and 3
> gigs of RAM
This is usually due to a bad / buggy print driver. Other than downloading
the latest "known good" W2003 drivers from each mfr., and reloading them in
one at a time - I'm not sure how easy it will be to fix this. Finding the
bad one isn't easy, esp. when you have so many.
Personally, I think that's a huge # of printers to have on one print server,
even with 3GB RAM. I'd rather split the load between several lower-end
servers, if it were me. But it isn't. :-)