Printer Spooler on Terminal Server

[Guest Snoopy]

Dear All,

 

I have Windows 2003 Ent terminal server, there are about 100 terminal

sessions on this terminal, all my client computers have the option enabled to

map that local pritner into a terminal server so they can print to they local

printers.

 

Recetly I have noticed that my Printer Spooler service on my terminal server

is eating my CPU cycles up to 60% of processor time, some times even heier.

My CPU is an AMD Opteron 2.51Ghz, which should be more than enouth to hendle

my sessions. There is only one application that run on my terminal and that

taking a very small amount of CPU cycles almost nothing compared to printer

spooler.

 

Are there any best practices that i can folow for my problem?

 

Thank you

[Guest TP]

Re: Printer Spooler on Terminal Server

 

Hi,

 

You have one or more printer drivers loaded on your server

that are not compatible with terminal services. Either update

them to TS compatible drivers or map them to a driver that

shipped with 2003 by following these instructions:

 

Windows 2000 Terminal Services server logs events 1111, 1105, and 1106

 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239088

 

Another alternative is to purchase a third-party universal

printer driver solution. In this case you would disable printer

mapping and remove all of the drivers you have installed

now. The only driver you would have installed would be

the UPD solution and it would handle printer autocreation.

 

-TP

 

Snoopy wrote:

> Dear All,

>

> I have Windows 2003 Ent terminal server, there are about 100 terminal

> sessions on this terminal, all my client computers have the option

> enabled to map that local pritner into a terminal server so they can

> print to they local printers.

>

> Recetly I have noticed that my Printer Spooler service on my terminal

> server is eating my CPU cycles up to 60% of processor time, some

> times even heier. My CPU is an AMD Opteron 2.51Ghz, which should be

> more than enouth to hendle my sessions. There is only one application

> that run on my terminal and that taking a very small amount of CPU

> cycles almost nothing compared to printer spooler.

>

> Are there any best practices that i can folow for my problem?

>

> Thank you