VB Code / Script to list all the printers in active direct..

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Sorry,

Cari
www.coribright.com

"MIke C" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> In the days of NT, I would use net view \\printserver and
> get a list of all the nt served printer queues on the
> named print server. In my company, each printer had a
> comment field with it, who had the building/floor number
> where the printer was - this was great, I could create a
> list which my dos scripts could use.
>
> When we moved to XP and the printer people decided that
> they would store the location in a different field in AD,
> so the net view command still lists the queue name, bur
> no longer lists the location/comment of the printer.
>
> I'm told that a very simple bit of VB code / script can
> be used to extract the required data, but I not a VB
> coder, so have no idea how to start
>
> Can anyone provide me with code which can extract printer
> info from active directory
>
> Thanks
>
> MIke
>