Network printer issue

[Diaonic]

Scenario: I have a hp 4100 network printer and a windows 2000 advanced server. The server is acting as a print server for the printer. The problem is the server is saving all the print jobs an when it gets rebooted or a power surge happens, it prints all of the documents its been saving.

Now before people start jumping to conclusions, iv already checked the properties of the printer and under advanced the box that says "keep printed documents" is not checked off.

So to make a long story short i need help

Thanks in advance

 

[TMPadmin]

Either of these help?
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Click the Start button, point to Settings, and click on Printers.
In the Printers folder, right-click on the printer in question, and then click Properties.
Click the Security tab, click Permissions, click Creator Owner account with the Manage Documents access from the Name list, and then click Add.
Click OK, and then restart your computer.
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To prevent this behavior from occurring, do not change the attributes of a spool file while it is in the %Systemroot%\System32\Spool\Printers folder.

To work around this behavior, remove the read-only attribute and then delete the spool file from the %Systemroot%\System32\Spool\Printers folder.

To remove the read-only attribute, right-click the spool file in Windows Explorer or My Computer, click Properties, click to clear the Read-only check box, and then click OK.

For information about how to delete files in Windows 2000, click Start, click Help, click the Index tab, type deleting, and then double-click the Deleting files topic.
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[Diaonic]

Nope i tried that an it didn't help

Anyone else have any ideas?

 

[wlee]

I can't find the Q Article on it right now, but I seem to recall your prob was "fixed" in Win2K SP3. Is the machine at least up to SP3 ? I know there are some "advanced features" that end up getting broken with SP4, so be carefull with that. After SP4 we were no longer able to print multiple copies of the same page.

 

[Diaonic]

Yea its completely up to date running SP4

 

[Diaonic]

I still need help with this, anyone else have any ideas?

 

[gunrunnerjohn]

I had an issue not unlike that with a W2K workstation saving printed documents and trying to print them when it was restarted. I looked for a solution, but never did find one. I invented my own solution, when I reboot, I have a script flush the spool directory, problem solved. It ain't pretty, but it works.

 

[Diaonic]

helpless bump

 

[Diaonic]

I resolved this if anyone was curious, "Bidirectional printing support" was turned on. Turned it off an everything started working fine.