Very Slow Printing on Citrix Metaframe (AREV Specific)
At 05 JAN 2000 08:05:09PM Jim Leong wrote:
I am testing Arev 2.12 on Citrix Metaframe 1.8 using Novell 4.11 as the file server. My print jobs are talking over a minute, compare to a few seconds. I have tried it off a NT workstation and a NT Server, and the printing is fine. But when I am logged into Citrix Metaframe, I will encounter this problem.
At 05 JAN 2000 08:28PM Jim Leong wrote:
I think I found the cause of this, but still doesn't solve my problem. It was caused by the Doskbd command. But when I remove this command from the dos batch file, my CPU utilization goes up to 100%. I am also running the ArevFix command. Any help with this would be appreciated.
At 20 JAN 2000 03:01PM KevinC wrote:
Jim -
Here's what the autoexec.nt file looks like, on our Citrix server. We haven't experienced the high utilization problem with this config:
@echo off
REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment.
REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a
REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.
REM Install CD ROM extensions
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe)
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir
REM Install DPMI support
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx
%SystemRoot%\system32\vipx.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\vlmsup.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\arevfix.com
By the way, we are running Arev 3.03 on Novell, thru Citrix Metaframe - what are you using to start and stop print jobs in Arev?
We've been using endcap, then net use lpt1 /delete to end the job, but it frequently locks the (entire) Citrix server.
Here's what we're using in our autoexec.nt: