[THIN] Re: Printing Strangeness
- From: Angus Macdonald <Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:27:32 +0100
We've had problems with orphaned print queues. If a user is running a
session on a thin client terminal with a locally connected printer and
disconnects the session before all print jobs have completed, the queue is
not deleted (presumably because it isn't empty) and the user keeps getting
print notifications from the orphaned queue when they have a session on
another server. The only reliable way we've found round the problem is to
take the printer off the terminal and connect it directly to the network,
printing via an NT print server.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Patten [mailto:pattenj@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 August 2003 13:14
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Printing Strangeness
Ok, in the past few days, printing has gone completely strange on me. I
have more and more users starting to complain of extremely slow printing,
and now the users are receiving Print notifications that print jobs are
paused, on servers they aren't connected too.
The only thing I can figure out is, that for some reason these notifications
are showing up from 'orphaned' printers on other servers. OR that they are
trying to print to an orphaned printer on another server left from a
previous session. Is that possible? Has anyone had experience with this?
Right now I am at a loss as to what is causing this. Right now however,
the print notifications seem to be coming ONLY from servers whose drivers I
replicated over with the PrintMig utility from MS. I am trying to figure
this out before it becomes a larger problem.
We are currently running a farm of about 8 Metaframe servers all at NT4 TSE
and MF1.8 SP2. No 3rd party printing systems.
Jason
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