Scripting services restart.

[boomam]

Hi.

Can anyone tell me if there is a way for me to script two services on our DC to stop/start every hour or so?

 

We have problems with some of our printers here where someone will print, it'll error, and just hold up the queue until i restart two services.

 

Is there a way to script this?

 

Thanks.

[cookie_monster]

Put this in a .bat file and schedule it to run when you want, or have one for stopping the service and one for starting.

 

net stop servicename

 

net start servicename

[Michael]

What are the model/make of the printers causing this problem? I had a similar problem recently with HP 2600n's. Unticking Bidirectional support made all the difference.

[boomam]

What are the model/make of the printers causing this problem? I had a similar problem recently with HP 2600n's. Unticking Bidirectional support made all the difference.

 

Yes, it is the 2600n's.

Ive disabled that, and we'll see how it goes, if it still happens, i'll use the above posted script to restart the spooler and quota software every lesson change over. .

[Michael]

I also was forced to stop and start the spooler, but as soon as Bidirectional support was unticked, it was a thing of the past

[boomam]

Ive switched off bidirectional support, but the problem persists. .

[mattx]

Try changing the option where it states - 'print after last page has spooled'

 

I think its on the Advanced Tab.....

[Kyle]

Try changing the option where it states - 'print after last page has spooled'

 

To what?

[mattx]

To what?

 

To that !! [ From Start Printing Immedialty ]

[boomam]

So set it to 'print immediately' ?

[mattx]

So set it to 'print immediately' ?

 

No, set it to print after last page has spooled.

[boomam]

Thats what it was set to, ive just set it to print immediately.