Excessive disk activity on NT4 creates printer access problems on Win95 clients

[Donovan Wilcox]

I am running NT4 SP3 with Win95 clients. I get a problem when one of my
users either:

1) Runs a query on an Access97 DB on the server
2) copies a large amount of data to/from the server

When the disk subsystem is busy in situations such as these, and someone
tries to print to a network printer, they get a message saying either that
access is denied or a connection to the network printer cannot be made. If
this problem occurs, I have to reboot both the print server PC (network
printers are attached to individual user's PC's) and the client PC that
made the print request. This gets really old really fast.

This seems to be an obvious timeout problem with the printing subsystem,
but I am unaware of how to adjust the timeout settings to compensate for
the increased amount of time that it takes the NT box to respond to a
client print request.

If anyone knows how to adjust this, please let me know (I would imagine I
will have to edit a specific Win95 registry entry or adjust the timing of
the NT box somehow to check for client requests more often than it does).

Thanks in advance.

-Donovan