Re: spooler service terminiated

From: Brendon Rogers (brendon_at_nospam-itology.net)
Date: 06/18/04


Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 08:14:16 -0400

I dont know if this is related, but we found that many of the HP drivers
included with W2K3 caused explorer.exe to crash on W2K Pro clients when
trying to print via the W2K3 print server. Installing drivers from HP on the
W2K3 print server made this problem go away.

"Jon Stauffer" <jstauffe@unifiedbiz.com> wrote in message
news:1e33501c454ad$9c579f40$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> We recently upgraded all of our 2k terminal servers to
> 2003. We have the spool terminate unexpectedly at least
> once a day on each server. We did not have this issue
> before.
>
> I'm assuming it's due to a printer driver issue, but I
> can't correlate anything with the event.
>
> Does anyone have any troubleshooting suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>
> BTW: These were upgraded by wiping and doing a clean
> install of 2003 enterprise.



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