Printing Problem with Roaming Profiles

I have an NT Server based LAN with XP clients setup with Roaming Profiles.
Each Morning the network printer they use spews out old documents and emails, some from users no longer active. This continues for up to 30mins.
Has anyone seen, dealt or heard of this?

 

Where is the queue? on the NT server? IS this phenomenon occur after someone complains one of the printers isnt working?

The most likely scenario is that one of the queues wedged, noone noticed/complained. Eventually, spooler service was restarted, and all those backed up jobs came out. Its also possible that you are virus scanning your spool folder, and the AV software is holding the jobs open when spooler tries to delete them. When spooler is restarting, he sees all these 'abandoned jobs' and reprints them, as expected.

 

The Print Queue is on the NT server! I have deleted and recreated it with WebJet Admin. Users can all print to the printer except when it spewing out ****, which it does each morning when they log on.
Only Netshield runs on the NT Server.

 

Not sure how roaming profiles are part of your problem.

Does the NT print server stay up after the users leave?

If so, have you checked to see if there are print jobs queued on the server but not printing when the users have all gone?

Is the printer wired directly to the network with it's own NIC, wired directly to the server, or is it using some sort of parallel<->rj-45 converter box to play on the network.

 

The printer is connected via a USB cable > Rj45 converter box.
The NT Server and printer are continuosly up!
The problem only occurs when the users log in with their Roaming profiles, various emails/web pages and app docs printout from multiple users that may be months old.