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A way to log printing?

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by ratherbfishing

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Does anyone know of a way to log communication between a NT 4.0 server and a Hp printer (Jet Direct)? We have an application that uses Word to create and print documents as a background process. Occasionally after the print command is issued, the job just hangs. There are no erors in the NT event log. We suspect a communication problem. So far I have not dicovered a way to log printing activity except what shows up the the event viewer, which is not information.

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by rappenp

You can setup Auditing on the N.T. Print Server. Then you can go into the Event log and see a entry for each print job that was submitted.
If your Print Server is overloaded right know you may want to rethink this because auditing in N.T. puts a load on the server

by ratherbfishing

I was looking for more detailed logging than auditing provides. Looks like I will have to set up Network Monitor and look at the packets. I was looking for reasons why printing failed.

Thanks

by netwill

If you are printing from NT (svr or wks), go to the property of the printer and enable auditing on printing success and failure.

by ratherbfishing

I was looking for more detailed logging than auditing provides. Looks like I will have to set up Network Monitor and look at the packets. I was looking for reasons why printing failed.

Thanks!

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