Windows 2000 Printing to Networked Printer Slows whole PC

[Luther1978]

I have a printer that is connected locally to a PC. This is shared on the network using MS File and printer sharing.

5 Computers connect to this computer in order to use the printer. 4 Work fine, however one computer that I want to make use of this printer takes a long time to print to said printer. Looking at or installing the printer also takes a long time.

The major problem is whilst having this printer installed using any of the windows applications such as explorer and Word run at an extremely slow pace if at all, and crash frequently. Remove the printer driver and the PC works fine as it should.

The Printer in question is a HP LJ 4050.

We also have several printers also HP 4050's connected straight to our network or via a print server. These work fine when installed on the problematic computer.

Any Ideas.

Thanks In advance

Martin

 

[scottew]

Check for a updated print driver from HP's website. Another simple solution would be to connect this printer to a print server.

Personally, I prefer print servers over sharing printers across the network.

 

[bcastner]

#1. Check the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\restrictanonymous

If the value is "2" change it to "1".

#2. Completely clean the printer drivers on the problem computer:

http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/CleanPrinterDrivers.htm

 

[gbaughma]

How about other network functions? Are they slow as well? Like copying large files, etc.?

You may have a cabling problem. If you have a 100-base network card in the PC that's giving you trouble, try locking it down to 10-half duplex.

I've had weird issues in the past especially in offices with flourescent lights and improperly wired network cables that throttling down the network solved.



Just my $.02

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify it's owner." --Me
--Greg

 

[Luther1978]

A printer Server would be my preffered solution, but in this case the printer is owned by us and not the supliers of the Network so my hands are tied and I cannot connect it directly to the network although it has a jet direct card installed.

As for the drivers, I will try downloading the latest drivers, but its the same drivers that are on all the other computers, and they're all the same spec PC's.

Cabling and networking. I suffer the same problem when connected to any of ports that the other working computers are connected to. When the printer is not installed, networked resources seem not to suffer. When the printer is installed all resources seem to suffer.

 

[Luther1978]

bcastner the above registry key value is set to 0 I will try setting it to 1