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Limit NT4 Spool Size
Name: Will Greene Date: January 7, 2002 at 06:33:11 Pacific
Comment:
Hi, I need to be able to limit the size of the printer spooler! some people are trying to print files bigger that 1GB (Stupdly big) is there a way of limiting the spool file to say 50mb? Please Help. Will.
Name: John Wassman Date: January 7, 2002 at 07:44:29 Pacific
Reply:
Nope,.. maby theres a utility but none that i've herd of. as far as standard NT, NOPE. Sorry to be of absolutly no help.. but I wanted to thank you for posting this... I had no idea till i researched it.
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Response Number 2
Name: richard watkins Date: January 17, 2002 at 02:33:12 Pacific
Reply:
you can I you understand that ALL spooling will crash on the NT server
you have to get SP4 or higher and enable disk Quota's (yes it is possible)
then set a size limit on the Spooler directory.
If the user goes over size it will error and will probably crash the spooler service.
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NT4 Boot error
