Re: Slow printer "reconnection?"

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From: Jonnie FoxPro (JonW_at_netscape.net)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:37:39 -0600

I might have found something is Group Policy that relates to my issue.

"Allow Print Spooler to accept client connections"
  (This policy controls whether the print spooler will accept client
connections.
  When the policy is unconfigured, the spooler will not accept client
connections until a user shares out a local printer or opens the print queue
on a printer connection, at which point spooler will begin accepting client
connections automatically.
  When the policy is enabled, the spooler will always accept client
connections.
  When the policy is disabled, the spooler will not accept client
connections nor allow users to share printers. All printers currently
shared will continue to be shared.

The spooler must be restarted for changes to this policy to take effect.)

I enabled it (was "unconfigured"), and it seems to significantly speed up
"Re-Connecting" to the servers shared printers.

Summary of issue:
When a user opens the "Printer and Faxes" folder, the "Status" of the
printers would update after a few seconds. If you didn't print for a while
(Not sure of exact time, maybe 20 min) and you opened the "Printer and
Faxes" folder or you were printing out of an application there was a
dwell/delay of a few seconds until the printer status could be determined.
After enabling this Group Policy, it seems to correct the issue. After
opening the printer folder closing it and opening it again after a couple of
hours, the status updated almost instantly.

Dave, do you have an SBS with shared printers? On a client system that has
those shared printers installed, see if you get the same type of behavior.
I'm curious.

Thanks
Jon

"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@NOSPAM.frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:OSvgaDEHFHA.3216@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I don't know what could cause this, but there's no connection timeout or
> anything like that in SBS 2003. I suppose the printers could be in power
> saving mode, but mine wake up from that fairly quickly. When I send a
print
> job to a network printer from my desktop PC, I can generally hear the
> printer start working within 2-3 seconds, even if it's in power save mode.
>
> Is there anything else these printers have in common that could be causing
a
> delay? I'm not sure what I'm envisioning here, but for example are they
all
> on the same hub?
>
> One thing you could try is to open printers and faxes. Click File ->
Server
> Properties -> Advanced and up the logging levels to see if anything shows
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