We have a Win 2003 Server with shared printers installed on it.

Approx. once a day the spool service crashed without any reason.

In the event-log we get a message, that the spool has crashed. Due to the
properties of the printer spool the service is started again. But then it
crashes several times, until we delete all SHD- and SPL-Files in the spool
directory.
After that the spool service runs for approx 24 hours.

The print-jobs, which creates the SPL- and SHD-files are pure
ASCII-textfiles, which are sent from Client-PCs to the shared printer on the
server.

Has anyone an idea, why the print spool crashes?

Kind regards