When you share a printer in Windows NT, the spooler creates a thread that
broadcasts a message to all Windows NT print servers. Each print server adds the
new print share name to its local printer browse list. In addition, each print
server rebroadcasts the list of its local printers to all print servers every 10
minutes. A large number of print servers can generate extensive network traffic.
You can disable the browse thread on a print server so it will not notify other
print servers of the existance of your printers. Of course, when you do, it does
not show up to your users in the printer browse list.
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print
Name:
DisableServerThread
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
Related:
Q181734 – Windows NT Print Browsing Architecture.
Q131902 – Printer Browse Thread May Cause Extensive Network
Traffic.
Printer Tips:
Improve print spooling
performance
RAW data mode
Print to a file
Steps to Manually Remove and
Reinstall a Printer Driver
Add Printer Panel icon to Windows NT Start Menu
Restrict the ability to add
print drivers to Administrators and Print Operators
Hide shared printer
How to Configure Printers on FPNW
to Service Pserver.nlm
Submit print jobs to wait afterhours to print
Print Server Migration Utility
NT Parallel Port
Thread Priority
Set
how long the port thread waits before giving up
Control printer popup messages
Printer Available
Broadcasts
How to
install a network printer only once for all users of the NT workstation
HP Web JetAdmin
Allow Print Operators
to add a printer
Drag
and Drop Printing
Add a
printer failed with message “Operation could not be completed. The RPC server is
unavailable.”
Don’t Get
Notified When Remote Documents Are Printed
