[THIN] Re: Anyone with printing problems install R02 yet?
- From: "Rick Mack" <Rick.Mack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:16:45 +1000
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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