Maximum no of printers you can add in W2K ?

[Mak]

Hi All,

Any one have any idea the maximum no of printers that you can add to
Win2000 system ?
In my work environment, we potential can have hundred of printers
adding to a printer server. So I wonder is there any limit on W2K
side.

Any idea is appreciated.

Thanks in advanced.

Mak

 

[Bruce Sanderson]

I don't think there is a specific limit on the number of printers. A few
hundred should be possible.

 

[Andrew Greenfield \(MSFT\)]

Hi All,

Any one have any idea the maximum no of printers that you can add to
Win2000 system ?
In my work environment, we potential can have hundred of printers
adding to a printer server. So I wonder is there any limit on W2K
side.

Any idea is appreciated.

Thanks in advanced.

Mak

There is no hardcoded limit. Your server will have limits however, based on
memory usage, bandwidth, etc.

I have added over 6K printers on a server, but it was really bogged down.
The practical limit I have found on W2K appears to be around 3K for a 1.8Ghz
machine with 512MB of RAM.

NT4.0 used to have a limit of around 900 or so, and would bugcheck on reboot
if the System Hive exceeded a certain size. This was fixed in NT4.0 SP6a.

-A

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