[THIN] Re: What is the best way
- From: "Rick Mack" <ulrich.mack@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:14:59 +1000
Hi Jason,
Citrix have two free utilities, addprinter and stressprinters that will do
what you want.
StressPrinter is a front end to addprinter, a command line utility that
creates and destroys printer queues multiple time to test whether a printer
driver can play well in a multi-user environment.
The one thing I'd advise though is not to run the utilities on a production
system. Addprinter, if you've got some suspect printer drivers, will hose
the spooler and can bend the whole o.s as a result. Always clean up any
stray local queues and reboot the test server before you use it for anything
else.
What I used to do was use PrintMig (Microsoft print migrator) to back up the
spooler configuration on a production server having problms with the
spooler, and "restore" that configuration on to a test machine, either a VM
or even just an XP workstation. That gives you the results you need without
potentially breaking anything important.
regards,
Rick
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Ulrich Mack
Quest Software
Provision Networks Division
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Jason Patten <jasoncitrix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What is the best way to find a Rogue print driver?
> I have a server whose spooler is crashing very frequently, Multiple times
> per day. I went through and found a couple of NT4 dirvers and removed those
> but its still crashing. I haven't been able to track down which printer is
> causing it to die.
>
>
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