change spool folder

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May I first ask why you'd want to do that? You can incur significant
performance problems, especially for large print jobs or for a print server.

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Felix Maxa
Windows Printing Team

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"Mark" <vs2003user@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I am attempting to change the spool folder to a network share\drive.
> Technical details...
> At first i tried to change it by:
> 1. entering the printers and faxes
> 2. server properties
> 3. advanced tab
> 4. spool folder
>
> I attempted changing it to.. h:\my example
> h:\my example is a mapped network drive to this share: \\myExample\my
> example.
> Windows does not allow me and gives me the following error:
> server spool directory location is invalid.
>
> I then attempted to change the following registry keys:
> \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\specific
> printer\SpoolDirectory
> \SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers\DefaultSpoolDirectory
>
> Restarted the service....
>
> After restarting the service and attempting to print... the spool
> directory still used the default directory for spooling.
>
> Is there any possibility to use a network drive\share for spooling in
> windows 2000\xp\nt?