Alternative adding printer script ?

13 Nov 2007 11:18 AM

Blackberry

Hi All

Been using a BAT file script to 'push' printers through to clients using the
standard rundll lines, etc, but been told that this is not a robust and
reliable method and should be looking at an alternative. Something about
old printers not removed from the clients or something.

Noticed somebody using a pushprinter.exe thingy, but when they showed me it
never worked so wasn't too impressed with this.

Somebody told me I should be using a VB script routine, but then they gave
me no info on what and how to do it!!

Any ideas?

Thanks

13 Nov 2007 11:46 AM

Florian Frommherz [MVP]

Howdie!

Blackberry schrieb:

> Been using a BAT file script to 'push' printers through to clients using the
> standard rundll lines, etc, but been told that this is not a robust and
> reliable method and should be looking at an alternative. Something about
> old printers not removed from the clients or something.
>
> Noticed somebody using a pushprinter.exe thingy, but when they showed me it
> never worked so wasn't too impressed with this.

I always use the BAT method to deploy printers - the rundll lines work
pretty well for me.

I've seen way more trouble with that pushprinterconnection.exe thing
from R2 to be honest.

cheers,

Florian

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16 Nov 2007 9:08 PM

Mark Heitbrink [MVP]

Hi,

Blackberry schrieb:

> Been using a BAT file script to 'push' printers through to clients using the
> standard rundll lines, etc, but been told that this is not a robust and
> reliable method and should be looking at an alternative.

Bullsh** it is the only way t handle printers ... despite of con2prt.exe

:-)

> Something about old printers not removed from the clients or something.

con2prt.exe /f
http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/tools/liste_unsortiert.htm
http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/tools/con2prt.exe

Mark

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19 Nov 2007 1:36 AM

Anderson

Hi Guys,

I just stumbled upon this post.

Any chance of sharing the BAT files for managing printers?

Does it work with Vista (even when client is not admin)?
Can it delete printers too?

I have moved all the printers to a new print server, and am looking for a
good way to clean up afterwards, ie make sure all clients are using the new
print server, and remove all references to the old print server.

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"Blackberry" <info@NoSpamIt.com> wrote in message
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> Hi All
>
> Been using a BAT file script to 'push' printers through to clients using
> the
> standard rundll lines, etc, but been told that this is not a robust and
> reliable method and should be looking at an alternative. Something about
> old printers not removed from the clients or something.
>
> Noticed somebody using a pushprinter.exe thingy, but when they showed me
> it
> never worked so wasn't too impressed with this.
>
> Somebody told me I should be using a VB script routine, but then they gave
> me no info on what and how to do it!!
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>

19 Nov 2007 10:24 PM

Mark Heitbrink [MVP]

Hi,

Anderson schrieb:

> I just stumbled upon this post.
> Any chance of sharing the BAT files for managing printers?

Download:
http://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/tools/con2prt.exe
(from MS ZAK, but no longer DL available from MS ...)

con2prt.exe /f
- deletes all existing _shared_ printers, local installed one stay.

con2prt.exe /c
- connects

con2prt.exe /cd
- connects and makes default

simply:
%logonserver%\netlogon\con2prt /c \\yourserver\printer1
%logonserver%\netlogon\con2prt /cd \\yourserver\printer2
etc.

Mark

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