[THIN] Re: Anyone with printing problems install R02 yet?

Hi,
 
What printer drivers are you using?
 
What O.S. version 2000 Server or Server 2003? 
 
You've got a number of ways of dealing with rogue drivers. If it's HP, the 
native driver coverage in Windows server 2003 is quite good, otherwise you've 
got the HP Universal printer drivers (PCL and HP). Lexmark have "thin" drivers 
for many of their top end printers, Fuji Xerox (the Fuji end anyway) have TS 
friendly drivers etc.
 
As far as low end printer support, in the long run it's far cheaper to get a 
more expensive printer than to have to cope with the "cost" of crap drivers and 
extortionate media costs.
 
Anyway, back to your problem. It actually is possible to get an environment 
where the cpsvc is stable. You just have to know what to avoid ;-) Replacing 
drivers is easy enough that it's worth doing.
 
regards,
 
Rick
 
Ulrich Mack 
Volante Systems 


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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of IT Support
Sent: Wed 30/08/2006 20:41
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Anyone with printing problems install R02 yet?



We're in a bit of a catch 22 situation here.

 

We've got network printers with features that require the original drivers.

 

The drivers crash cpsvc....

 

Apart from replacing the printers, there's not much else we can do apart from 
use this workaround!

 

 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Jeff Pitsch
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:58 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Anyone with printing problems install R02 yet?

Sounds like a 'fix the symptom but not the problem' scenario here.  Clean out 
your print drivers....

 

Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Server

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On 8/27/06, IT Support <it@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

We get this too - to save you manually killing and restarting the service, put 
this script as a scheduled task on system startup. 

 

It monitors the event log and automatically restarts cpsvc whenever it runs 
into problems.

 

Works a treat for us...

 

' Monitors the eventlog for event id 26 regarding cpsvc.exe, if found it kills 
the process and after 10 sec. restarts the process. 

' 290805: Michael Pultz-Hansen / Martin Larsen, Compu-Game A/S, Denmark

 

strComputer = "." 

Set objWMIService = 
GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate,(Security)}!\\" _

& strComputer & "\root\cimv2") 

 

' send any instance creation events where the instance being created is of the 
Win32_NTLogEvent class

Set colMonitoredEvents = objWMIService.ExecNotificationQuery _

("Select * from __instancecreationevent where TargetInstance ISA " _

& "'Win32_NTLogEvent' and TargetInstance.EventCode = '26'") 

 

intContinue = 0

Do Until intContinue > 0

Set objLatestEvent = colMonitoredEvents.NextEvent

strDisplayMessage = objLatestEvent.TargetInstance.Message

 

If Instr(1, strDisplayMessage, "cpsvc.exe", 1) > 0 Then

 

strComputer = "."

arrTargetProcs = Array("cpsvc.exe")

 

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _

& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colProcesses = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process")

 

' Checking for target processes ...

 

For Each objProcess in colProcesses

For Each strTargetProc In arrTargetProcs

If LCase(objProcess.Name) = LCase(strTargetProc) Then

Set WshShell = wscript.createobject("wscript.shell")

WshShell.Exec("taskkill /im CpSvc.exe /f")

End If

Next

Next

 

' Restart the CpSvc service after 10 sec.

Dim WshShell

WScript.Sleep 10000

Set WshShell = wscript.createobject("wscript.shell")

WshShell.Exec("Net Start CpSvc")

 

End If

Loop 

 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf Of thinlist@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: 24 August 2006 13:50
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Anyone with printing problems install R02 yet?

 

If the cpsvc is hanging then it *may* be related to printer drivers and not any 
fix in R02. If you are can handle the manually killing of the cpsvc for the 
moment I'd wait until citrix release a post R02 hotfix with a fix for the 
deleting printers after 5min issue. 

On 8/23/06, Evan Mann < emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
<mailto:emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: 

 Have any of you that have been experience printing problems lately because of 
recent R01 hotfixes, updated to R02 and seen any relief?  I've been reluctant 
to move to R02 because of the known issues with mapped printers being deleted 5 
minutes post print system being restarted.  That would be worse then just 
dealing with having to manually kill cpsvc.exe and restart the services like I 
do now.  However, if R02 may solve the crashing issues in general, the 5 minute 
thing doesn't matter

 

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