LPR ports timeout in Windows 2003?

[Rob McShinsky]

Hopefully someone steer me in the right direction. We are moving our
multiple NT print servers to a Windows 2003 print active/active cluster.
Because we still have many Unix servers we have used LPR port heavily. So
in the past we have made the NT print server non RFC 1179 compliant
(allowing for more than 11 TCP ports). I can not find the appropriate key
to do this in Windows 2003. The HKLM\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\LPDSVC\LPR key is
not present in our Windows 2003 (this was previous outlined in Q179156 for
WinNT). We will have approx. 310 print ques on each node of the
clusterwhere 90% are LPR ports. Obviously running them in an RFC compliant
(11 TCP Ports) is not going to work. Could someone point me to the correct
location in the registry to make this non RFC 1179 compliant. Before you
ask, we have considered migrating the LPR ports to Standard TCP/IP, but at
this point this is not an option. All new print ques will be created this
way however and the others will be phased out in stages. Thanks

Rob McShinsky
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

 

[Rob McShinsky]

My bad... just had to wait for a sec. It appeared after a spooler service
refresh.