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NT 4.0 and Printers

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by woody h

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We have a Dell server, running Windows NT 4.0 sp 6a, 2 PII 400 Mhz, 256MB Ram. We have been having problems with our Printers, the spooler seems to jam up, and we have to stop and restart the spooler service to get the printers to restart. We havenow added more printers today to our network, and the printers are stopping quite a bit. Does anyone know of any problems/limitations with Windows NT 4.0 server. Our printers are setup using TCP/IP Printing with LPR. Thank you.

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by jyimcse

Do you have other protocols running on the printers. Ethertalk and DLC. You should disable all protocols except for TCP/IP.

by nettek

Try increasing the "Idle-timeout" setting under the control panel of the printers.

Also, make sure that the Domain Users group has Change permissions on the Spool share or Spool folder.

by woody h

This did not work. It wasn't the printers that was having a problem, it was the server that was causing the problem.

by rudolph(uk)

If the clients are NT and have the service TCP/IP printing installed, you can install the printers directly on the clients: Add new port ==> LPR port ==> IP address of the printer. Then install the printer as local printer in the newly created port.
You can still admin all your printers from HP JetAdmin or the equivalent utility from Epson.
That should solve your problem.

by woody h

We had this already in place. As I stated above, we were setup with TCP/IP printing with LPR ports.

by woody h

Upon further investigation, we found out that since we have all HP printers, we can use a protocol called DLC. This doesn't require the use of an IP Address, it uses the printers NIC Mac address. It actually prints out quite fast. Problem fixed.I appreciate all your input and suggestions.

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