Problem with network printers

[bonovox]

Goodmorning,
I'm a system administrator and I mantain also network printers of my factory (like 200: inkjet - laserjet from different vendors: HP oki, epson...).
Printers are defined on a print server SUN with O.S. Solaris (unix).
All pc clients (like 400) have network printers installed on.
With o.s. windows 98 any problem was occur, the printer was online and documents immediately where printed.
Now I'm migrating clients from win 98 to win XP professional SP 2.
Printers become having problems.
When I install one device on a client with windows XP using correct drivers, initially seems ok then, from "printer panel" I can see the state of the printer: "access denied, connection impossible".
However the printer works but for printing a word or excell document, it needs some minutes.
This is a problem because users complain work delays.
Is not possible that network printers defined on servers unix have all that problems when are installed on clients with windows XP.
If I link directly the printer from the client using the IP address the problem doesn't occur but I exclude printer server and it is not possible, I must manage printer queues with the printer server.
Does anyone know the cause of my problem or have seens something similar. May be a key configuration from the XP register.
Please help me

Thanks


Bonovox

[snowmonkey]

I exclude printer server and it is not possible, I must manage printer queues with the printer server.

Hi There,

Do you have print server to queue the print jobs ? How do you do that ?

There is no trick into setting printer on Windows XP....given that the IP address of the printer does not change ...IS the IP address of the printer / print server hard coded ?


Cheers

[bonovox]

Hi,

The print queue is managed by operating enviroment Solaris. It works fine, the problem involves only clients with windows XP.
All IP address of my network are hard coded I don't use DHCP.
I found a work around but not the cause of the problem.
With "net use" command, from clients I create a direct connection from the queue defined on my server unix and the LPT2 port of the client. Then I associate the LPT2 port to my print device.
In this way I can print immediately without delays.
But it isn'it a solution for my problem.