Windows Server 2003 Network Printing Performance and Errors

[jburgod]

I have recently upgrade a file and print server to Windows Server 2003
and have been having issues with printing. I upgraded hardware to a
3.0 Ghz Xeon, with 2 GB of memory, and approx. 80 GB of disk.
Initially the issue was slow network printing, extremely slow, 2 to 3
times slower than the old W2k server which was a third of the system
hardware-wise. I've tried pretty much everything new and old drivers,
Microsoft and vendor based drivers, disabling and enabling advanced
printing features... nothing corrected the slowness. The primary
printers with the issue are 2 HP LJ5000s and 1 HP LJ4000 although at
times it affects all printer on the system which is a total of 8. I've
searched the net and newsgroups for a solution or explanation with no
success. Has any one else experienced these such issues?

The system is running the exact same software the old server was
running. There is a Oracle database instance along with its
accompanying ERP package, a prevasive SQL database along with an
accompanying accounting package and then the file and print server.

As of late I'm starting to get event 61 from source 'Print' with an
error message of '0' meaning "Job completed successfull"???

I'm at a loss and I'm almost to the point of keeping the old server and
using it as a print server becuase my tests have shown that it is able
to process pint jobs 2 to 3 times as fast. Anyone have any ideas or
suggestions?

 

[cyrus]

you try to separate the file and print server. from other application.
try this out.
rgds
cyrus