[windows2000] Re: Upgrade win2k pro to win2k server?

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 15:28:20 +0200

On Wed, 7 May 2003 15:24:26 +0200, Dennis Appelboom wrote:

>Do you by any change have a HP officejet printer connected through the =
>print server?

No, only hp laserjets and one biggun canon copy-printer..

>I had a problem with a win2k server used by 50 people for printing. We =
>installed all printers with a logon script, and after everyone started =
>using the printers through the print server, the server used 100 =
>processor time.....
>Turned out to be the officejet driver, that did not close sessions.....

Yupp, I recall there was a recommended patch on windowsupdate for
this.

>We had to remove the officejet from the printserver (and since it was =
>only use to receive faxes, we removed it from the network as well..).

Wish all problems were that simple to solve...

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: woensdag 7 mei 2003 15:01
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: Upgrade win2k pro to win2k server?
>
>
>
>On Wed, 7 May 2003 14:52:38 +0200, Dennis Appelboom wrote:
>
>>No, you can onlu 'upgrade' it by re-installing win2k server.
>
>Ok, in that case, does anybody know of a utilty that is able to
>auto-close all open remote session after a specified time. Or
>perhaps a reskit utility, that I can shedule every five minutes or
>so, to close all open sessions?
>
>I use the computer with win2k pro as a printer server, and it's
>started to refuse connections after 10 users have accessed the
>pinter server. Apperantely it doesn't close the sessions after the
>user is done - they can be active for days... I didn't recon with
>this problem when first planning the printer server... 8-/
>
>Thx.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>Sent: woensdag 7 mei 2003 14:51
>>To: Windows2000 Mailing List
>>Subject: [windows2000] Upgrade win2k pro to win2k server?
>>
>>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Pls refresh my memory ppl, is it correct that win2k pro can be
>>upgraded to win2k server, assuming both use the same language and
>>the hardware is ok?



BW,

Sorin

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