[THIN] Re: Printing Strangeness
- From: "Jim Kenzig http://thethin.net" <jimkenz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:46:04 -0400
Get http://thethin.net/pdmanager.zip and run it against the server. Delete
all unnecessary print drivers.
There is a printer cleanup utility on thethin.net TS downloads page called
wtsprintercleanup that cleans up orphaned printers. We use Emergent Onlines
Thinnsentials EOL Watchdog for this purpose and it works great! And at $195
per server it is worth every penny, it can also watch the IMA service and
check for down listeners...see:
http://www.99point9.com/public/products/product.asp?ProdID=EOLWATCH
There is a setting in module.ini that you can change in the users PC(and in
the passthrough directory on the server) to speed up printing.
See http://thethin.net/faqs2.cfm?id=167&category=1&sortby=score
JK
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Jason Patten
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 9:36 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Printing Strangeness
Ok, something else I just discovered. The printer on the local side is set
to "spool so printing finishes faster" and "start printing immediately". On
the server their printer is at "spool after last page is spooled". I can
change it to "start printing immediately" but it has no effect on how fast
the printing occurs, AND next time they log in it is right back to "print
after last page" again. I have also noticed that it seems to be sending one
page, and waiting on a response before sending the second.. Not sure if that
helps any or not.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Patten [mailto:pattenj@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:14 AM
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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