Printer Driver for Windows 2003 Clustered Server

From: SL (SL_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/11/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:55:02 -0800

Printer drivers installed on NT4.0 client from the Windwos 2003 Clustered
server has a serious performance problem with displaying the Properties
and Printing Preferences.

When I opened the Properties on NT4.0 client, "General", "Sharing",
"Ports", "Advanced", "Color Management", and "Security" pages open
fine. But the vendor specific pages load extremely slow. It takes about
one to two minutes to open a page. Then when I press "OK" or "Cancel"
button, it also takes the same long time to close the Properties window.

Samething happens to opening the Printing Preferences page.

I checked other vendor's drivers by installing them to Windows 2003 Clustered
server and NT4.0 client environment. The same thing happens. Opening the
vendor specific pages takes a long time.

Could you please let me know if Microsoft is aware of this problem and if
there is a walk-around or a solution?

Thank you.

SL