[THIN] Re: Print Spooler Stopping

  • From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:18:23 -0500

In Windows 2000 you can set the recovery options in the Services applet for
the Print spooler Service to automatically restart when it crashes.  You can
also instruct it to run a program which can be your batch script to restart
it if it does it on subsequent times.  What you want to do is stop the
spooler and clear out the jobs in the printers folder and restart it...like
the script at the bottom of http://thethin.net/print.cfm

Regards,
Jim Kenzig
http://thethin.net


-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jonathan Neffgen
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 9:56 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Print Spooler Stopping



Windows 2000 Server SP3 running Citrix Metaframe 1.8 SP3.

We are are great advocates of using Citrix to pick up client printers and
this function is really useful to us.  Recently one user had a problem
whereby their client printer was not getting picked up automatically, we
figured this was because the driver was non-standard (Ricoh multifunction)
and needed to be installed on the server.

We did so and this appeared to fix the problem, HOWEVER since doing this the
Print Spooler service on the server stops every so often.  It doesn't start
back up automatically nor do we know why this is happening.  It's pretty
frustrating as we are having to use a batch script to manually restart the
Printer Spooler every few hours.

I've searched for this problem on the web and from what I can tell, this is
a known issue without a known solution!

Any ideas what's causing the problem and how to solve it?

Jon Neffgen.

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